Marguerite Belleri from
Jackson Heights, New York: “I sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company…I’ve
sung with the Met every season since 1910”
Mrs. Belleri
sings in virtual anonymity in the 78-member chorus. In her long history, she knew and performed
with such legends as Enrico Caruso and conductor Arturo Toscanini. Here, she performs “An die Musik” (1817) by
Franz Schubert, accompanied on piano by her daughter, Elizabeth Martiny. At the
end of the current season, the Met is vacating the Metropolitan Opera House,
its home since 1883, for new facilities at Lincoln Center. Belleri would move with the company to the
new performance space, but would retire at the end of the 1967 season.
Tom Williams from Duluth, Minnesota: “I’m a professional ice
hockey player…I’m the only American born player in Major League Hockey”
Williams
plays center for the Boston Bruins in an era when the NHL still only has their
“Original Six” teams, and for much of the sixties was the only American among
the 120 or so active players. He was a
member of the gold-medal winning American hockey team at the 1960 Winter Olympics
in Squaw Valley. Williams was nicknamed
“The Bomber” not for his shooting prowess, but because he once joked to
Canadian customs officials that he had a bomb in his luggage. He would play professionally until 1976, but
with the expansion to twelve teams in 1967, and the growing US interest in the
sport, he soon lost his unique status as the only American NHL player.
Special guest Robert Morse brings
original models of inventions (cash register, mimeograph, adding machine,
telephone) and the panel tries to figure out what the common devices are
today. Morse has two credits with
exceptionally long titles. He is known
for his starring role on Broadway in How
to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961-65) and will star in the
upcoming move Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s
Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad (1967).
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