Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quicksand & Old Corsets. Marlon Brando Jr. was born on April 3, 1924 in Omaha, Neb., the third child, first son of a salesman of limestone products. His mother, described years later by Actress Stella Adler as "a very beautiful, a heavenly, lost, girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very...
...week's end Artistic Director Kurt Herbert Adler (successor to the San Francisco Opera's founder, the late Gaetano Merola) had reason to be satisfied with the way his first season was going. With his divas backed by a solid company (including Metropolitan Opera Singers Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren and Lorenzo Alvary), he could be sure of top musical quality for the next six weeks. Adler has another novelty in store for next month: the first U.S. performance in operatic form of Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, with Cinemactress Dorothy McGuire speaking the name...
General Electric Theater (Sept. 26, 9-9:30 p.m.), an all-film show last year, starts off live with Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Gene Tierney, Luther Adler, Patric Knowles...
Asked a newsman: Was Adler bitter about the U.S.? No, not about the U.S., only about some people, replied the harmonica Paganini. "I have a way of channelizing these things...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 6 (Helen Schnabel; Vienna Orchestra conducted by F. Charles Adler; SPA). Beethoven arranged this number himself at the behest of a publisher who offered him hard cash. It is a piano version of his famed Violin Concerto, its singing solo part reinforced by octaves, its cadenzas (including a ground-breaking passage for piano and timpani) especially written for the occasion. Not as silly as it might seem...