Word: alda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Bob Hope, with Constance Moore and Robert Alda...
Died. Mme. Frances Alda, 69, longtime (1908-29) Metropolitan Opera soprano; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Venice. With typical bluntness, red-haired Soprano Alda once described her marriage (1910-28) to Met Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...
...told of Mme. Alda's death until after the performance, Toscanini conducted believing that she was watching from the Toscanini...
...mystery for the mystics to explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...
There are two leading guys. One, Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...