"Met" in Cleveland

Huge, rowdy crowds filled Cleveland's Public Hall last summer when Coughlinites, Townsendites and Republicans convened there. Last week the big auditorium was packed decorously with Cleveland's best, to hear the Metropolitan Opera Company sing in their city for the first time in five years. For Le Coq d'Or and Cavalleria Rusticana on the opening night, the turnout was 9,425, biggest house the Metropolitan has ever had.* At next night's Tristan the house was almost as full. Ticket sales for the week's engagement beat all records, added a final gracenote to the Metropolitan's most successful season in years.

The Metropolitan this year visited Hartford, Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia during its regular season. Its three-week tour at the season's end called for twelve performances in Boston, two in Baltimore, eight in Cleveland, winds up this week with a one-night stand in Rochester. Back in Manhattan the Metropolitan prepared for its second "spring season" at popular prices. Pianist Lee Pattison, appointed manager for this series, announced Faust for the opening night, May 3./- He promised Walter Damrosch's new opera, The Man Without a Country, for the second week, expected the series would last at least a month, maybe longer unless the weather gets too hot.

*Second biggest: 7,000 in Atlanta in 1928.

/-Valentine on this occasion will be Donald Dickson, 25, who sings on the Sealtest program over NBC. Of the remaining U. S. recruits, NBC has a majority with Maxine Stellman, Thomas L. Thomas, Robert Weede, Helen Traubel.

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