Music: Thanks & Farewell
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Now that his job is done, Edward Johnson, still vigorous at 68, wants to "have fun for a while." He plans to travel—to Florence, where his wife is buried, to South America, which he has not visited since he sang there in 1916. He plans to visit his daughter, Mrs. George Drew, wife of Canada's Tory party leader, and his grandchildren. But Manhattan and the opera house will see him again. Still a Canadian citizen, Johnson says "I have lived [in New York] too many years to be anything but a New Yorker."
*In 1943, when Tenor Lauritz Melchior was taken ill before a scheduled matinee performance of Siegfried.
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