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J* Met Stars Are Becoming Good Looking in New Era By W. G. ROGERS AimcUIH Press Arts Editor New York - (AP) ? Remember the good old days 'when sopranos were short, (at and tubby, with maybe a mole on the chin? Remember how you used to go to the Metropolitan Opera and shut you eyes not so much to swoon ov er the music as because you really couldn't bear to look? Maybe those days weren't so bad as some scoffers pretend, but any way, they seem to be gone now. Sopranos, and mezzos, too, at the Met are getting as good looking as any Broadway belles. A guy who whistles at a pair of ankles on 42nd Street may get a chorine, or may get tomorrow's Flagstad. Irmxard Srefrlfd Blanche Thebom, the mezto, helped start this welcome fashion. Elena Nikolaidi carried it on; and now there's a newcomer absolute ly guaranteed as an eye-opener. lrmgard Seefried, dark-haired, round-faced, sparkling Viennese. You may have heard her in recit al ? in New Orleans, in Boston or the many other cities she has visit ed on three American tours. She has just been heard for the first time in New York opera, as the Su sanna in the Met's first "Marriage of Figaro*' of the 1953-54 season. If it was a new stage to this singer, it was not a new part. It was her 300th Susanna, she said, and she recalls that she sang it 28 times in just one month when the war was over and music re turned full-scale to Vienna. But in opera, handsome is as handsome does, and Miss See fried passes that test, too. She won warm praise for her first night, and will repeat the perform ance five more times before going back to Austria ?t the end of De cember. She is a serious, dedicated singer. In her recitals she has pre pared eight programs, where anoth er soprano might have made do with half as many. She is adding American songs to her repertory, too, by Samuel Barber. William Schuman and Paul Nordoff. among others, and plans to program them in her native land. She talks with the same appeal ing sort of naturalness which made her Susanna so agreeable. In her apartment, as on the stage, she moves fast and never mind the consequences. On stage a quick With Sally Forrest Acting Comes First, Cooking Later By MARK BARRON Now York ? One nice thing about Sally Forrest is that she ad mits she isn't a good cook. Another nice thing is that she is a terrifical ly good actress. Also it is nice knowing Miss Forrest because she is of great as sistance to newspapermen. The oth er afternoon I was trying to locate a prominent actress in connection with a news story. Miss Forrest was on the telephone at the mom ent and I explained my problem. In five minutes she called back with the telephone number. If any editor wants a good cub re porter, 1 recommend Miss Forrest. She tells me that she has finally bowed to the inevitable and is go ing to do the lead in a Broadway play. She hasn't done a play be fore. The title is "Debut" and Miss Forresl said for us Broadway crit ics not to start cracking about "De but and Finis." Miss Forrest also appears on TV. One of her TV dates was in the leading role in the first script ever written for video by William Faulkner, the 1950 Nobel Prize winner. It was an extraordinary encount er between an engaging actress and a talented author, because Mr. Faulkner needs a long time to say what he has to say. Some of his speeches run more than 125 lines. Miss Forrest is the star in the new MGM picture "Code Two" for which there was a big Broadway premiere. OCEAN PARK DRIVE-IN 1.1ST TIMES TONIGHT "THUNDER OVER THE PLAINS" Randolph Scott - Phyllis Kirk SATURDAY "CODE TWO" Elaine Stewart - Ralph Meeker SUNDAY MONDAY "MOGAMBO" Clark Gable - Ava Gardner ?CITY "THE SHOWPLACE OF 1 CARTERET COUNTY" SATURDAY ? t ! 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