Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first performance of La Bohème, young (28), bristle-haired Conductor Arturo Toscanini ordered the house lights turned out. Further, he instructed his Mimi (Soprano Cesira Ferrani) to stay in character once she started to succumb to consumption in Rodolfo's drafty garret in Act IV; there would be no rolling around in the creaky bed for encores...
...scenery, and with no box lunches in the studio audience. He lined up his cast of soloists (mostly Met stars) before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight (TIME...
Since it began, four months ago, Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...
...passed down from generation to generation. Hybrids get their qualities from their parents, mixing them together according to a complicated and rigid set of rules. Any sudden change in a species, the geneticists call a "mutation." They do not account for it naturally, but consider it a genetic act...
What's needed, said Señor Erro, is a better theory of space. He proposed to substitute a theory developed by the late Dr. George D. Birkhoff of Harvard. Applied to the runaway galaxies, the Birkhoff idea would make the universe act its age. It would also reduce the universe's galaxy population to a mere eleven billion. "Birkhoff space" is flat, not curved. But laymen who imagine that that might make it easier to understand should be warned that it is both "flat and four-dimensional...