Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broadway's top producer this season, 53-year-old Kermit (Look Homeward, Angel] Bloomgarden (TIME, April 21), had the good fortune to form a team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions...
...Lancelot, nor an angel with wings...
...event, Goldfine called in his Post loans to Fox, later appeared as the angel behind a syndicate trying to buy Fox out of the staggering Post. Fox, certainly at least as much through his own behavior and his growing reputation as a fabulous deadbeat as through anything Goldfine might have done, found credit doors slammed in his face. The Post folded on Oct. 4, 1956. In his struggles in the net of finances, John Fox has had federal tax liens slapped on his properties, been hauled through Boston's Poor Debtors' Court, been arrested for failure to meet...
Rossini: Le Comte Ory (Sari Barabas, Cora Canne-Meijer, Juan Oncina, Michel Roux; the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Vittorio Gui; Angel, 2 LPs). "A collection of diverse beauties," said Berlioz of Rossini's next-to-last opera, "which would make the fortune not of one but of two or three operas." The melodic beauties are there in full measure, as this first recording of Le Comte demonstrates, but linked together they constitute not three operas but a splintered fragment of one. The work has some rich ensemble climaxes and some rippling solo parts, but after...
...show that the All-American smile can become oppressive, he recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...