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FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
Volume XII, No. 7
Scenes in "The Whole Who Wanted to Sing at the Met."
"The Whale Who Wonted to Sing at the Metropolitan"
Music and Voices by Nelson Eddy
This episode opens with a program page giving the title. The page turns. We read : “Any similarity between voices in this story is easily explainable because they are all Nelson Eddy.” Then there is a long ahhhhh note, and more pages are blown over one by one in a great gust of wind. A montage effect follows, with music notes, hats, curtains, flowers, lightning, clouds, rain, snow, and finally newspapers being blown along. We truck in to one newspaper to read the headlines : “Phantom Voice Sings At Sea,” “Seaman Sights Singing Sea Monster,” etc. The sheet swings away to reveal a newsboy selling papers. The man about to purchase the paper is crowded out by two Kibitzers who say: “A Singing Whale.? Well, Whadda Ya Know? Imagine That!” A head rises through a manhole cover in the street, and a voice says: “I Don’t Believe It.” The policeman on his beat and a fat woman, hanging out wash, echo : “I Don’t Believe It. Who Ever He.4rd Of a Singing Whale?”
The scene changes to a conference of eminent doctors ; one is speaking, and an argument ensues. There is another scene of four masters debating in front of a blackboard with a diagram of a whale. We cut to a close-up of Prof. Tetti Tatti at his desk. He is studying an item in the paper regarding the Singing Whale and is comparing it with the incident of Jonah and the Whale. We see that Tetti Tatti gets the idea that this new phenomenon is nothing but a repetition of the Jonah-and-theWhale incident and decides that an opera singer of much talent must have been swallowed by a
whale at sea. He immediately sees the possibility of cashing in on the publicity and calls for press photographers and newsmen, to give them the story that he is setting out on an expedition to rescue the unfortunate vocalist.
Later, a seagull picks up the newspaper, which says: “Im
PREssARio Searches Ocean For Singing Whale.” As he flies with it past Tetti Tatti’s boat and to the whale, the narrator says : “There really is a
WHALE NAMED WiLLIE, WHO CAN SING. You CAN HEAR HIM NOW.” We then see and hear the whale singing “SHORTENIN’ Bread” to his friends, the seals