Billy Rose had already given five columns worth of detailed advice to the Metropolitan Opera Association on how to cure its ills (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week, he tossed off some parting general prescriptions, called them his "fond adieu to the fair land of Culture and Confusion":
1) "Junk the gingerbread monstrosity on 39th Street and build a modern opera house, equipped with the last word in mechanical, electrical and acoustical stage devices . . .
2) "Tie a can to the so-called traditional methods of producing grand opera and stage it in terms of the present-day American theater ... If it seemed...
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