"Unlike his "Gramophone" colleagues, he found Ruth Welting's Fairy Godmother "a touch edgy", but he was at one with them in his bemusement that CBS had allotted Prince Charming to the "hard-pressed" tenor of Nicolai Gedda instead of the "elegant female pantomime boy" of Massenet's wishes.He approved Julius Rudel's conducting for resisting the temptation to lapse into an excess of sentimentality.