Music: Met's Metamorphosis
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Simple, genial, a Rotarian, Manager Johnson is in deadly earnest, wants to convince everybody that opera is "good music and a good show." By concert tours, renting stars, broadcasting, he plans to make the Metropolitan cover more ground than ever before. His dream is to have the Metropolitan running ten months a year before the New York World's Fair (1939).
* The same night Manhattanites were congratulating themselves on last year's prosperous season and anticipating an even better one, stagehands in Chicago were ringing down the curtain on a comeback even more surprising. With the help of Foodmaker Jason Whitney (cheese) and the Brothers Goldblatt (department stores), Impresario Paul Longone had redeemed his failure of last year (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935), discovered Prodigy Betty Jaynes, steered Soprano Vivian della Chiesa into stardom, sold out the house for Galli-Curci's return, produced creditable opera at $4 top, ended the season with a deficit of only about $50,000.
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