Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbidden to meet as a discussion group, a number of Petofi hotheads gathered together at the monument of Sandor Petofi on the morning of Oct. 23. Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed...
...Opera in spite of his voice." So writes Cyril Ritchard in a Met program note. At any rate, the Met hired him to stage and star in its new production of Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole, and Manager Rudolf Bing has rarely had a better idea. Actor Ritchard's singing may only be an educated guess ("My voice has four legitimate notes," he says, "the rest is just growl"), but he makes up for it in agility, style...
...operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented at $30 a night-Actor-Director Ritchard has assigned himself a black charger for a grand entrance as the viceroy. This constitutes something of a concession by Manager Bing, who in recent years has severely cut down on the use of animals in opera-once as many as eight for Carmen, now nary a neigh. (When...
Owned by Television Producer-Actor Robert Montgomery, Chambered Nautilus is currently on exhibit in Manhattan's Whitney Museum Annual. Four and a half months in the painting, it is a real Wyeth tour de force. Its breeze-blown, transparent valances swaying from the old-fashioned fourposter, its daring use of bare wall and blank window contrasted with the meticulous rendering of wicker basket and window-shade drawstring, require skills and technique that few modern artists even claim to possess...
Fred Allen met Portland Hoffa when she was a chorus girl in The Passing Show of 1922. They were married in 1927 in the Actor's Chapel (Manhattan's St. Malachy's Church). "Portland had been a herd thespian; as a member of the chorus she had participated, unnoticed, in group singing and bevy dancing," but Allen made room for her in his vaudeville act. Portland later became the perky, indestructible nitwit on Allen's radio show. Of the early days, Allen fondly recalls that she not only fed him jokes but also quantities of salmon...