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Attacking the press fits Randolph's taste and temperament. "I'm a naughty tease," he admitted last week in his 20-room, seven-bath Essex farmhouse, where he lives with his second wife and their daughter, Arabella, 6. (His son Winston II, 15, is at Eton.) "I like to attack rich and powerful people. I like to do things the hard way." In the Spectator, in a signed weekly column for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and by freelancing, Randolph plays his role of gadfly. His cause, and the lusty Churchillian way he fights it, has gained...
...Metropolitan Opera last week broke out in moderate three-quarter time. It staged the U.S. premiere of a 23-year-old opera by the late great Richard Strauss, called Arabella. Completed 23 years after Der Rosenkavalier, in 1932, it proved to be a pale reflection of that bouquet, but it had some of its typical ingredients: 1) a text by Strauss's friend, Poet Hugo von Hofmannstahl, with its share of Viennese titillation and Gemütlichkeit; 2) lovely melodies for the high voices, including some, so melting that the music seemed to run across the stage and drown...
...Girl? The plot's pretty problem: Zdenka, younger sister in a penniless noble family, has been raised as a boy for economy's sake (a boy's upbringing is so much cheaper). But Zdenka has lost her unboyish heart to Sister Arabella's best beau, Matteo. Fortunately, Arabella falls for a handsome stranger and Zdenka lures Matteo to her room, leading him to believe he is getting Arabella. Since the handsome stranger overhears (and misunderstands) this plot, things look pretty bad for a while. Zdenka finally clears everything up by appearing as the woman she really...
...Arabella is basically an old-fashioned Viennese operetta-the sort that Johann Strauss really did much better than Richard†-without the courage of its corn. In Arabella, the waltz and schmaltz have been refined and intellectualized. Composer Strauss wrote this score in the tragically arid last third of his life, and he filled it with hints and quotations reflecting other works. His hand had lost none of its craft, and all the score lacks is inspiration. The Met postured prettily in its new hat; actually, Arabella was just an old toque...
Elsewhere photographers snapped some candid shots of part-time sports figures in lesser events: in Biarritz on a recent vacation, two-year-old Arabella, daughter of Randolph and granddaughter of Winston Churchill, huffed & puffed till her tongue hung out playing solitaire with a beach ball. In Falkenstein, Germany, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy practiced place-kicks before a game of touch football between his office staff and a team of American newspaper correspondents. The practice paid off: McCloy 's eleven trounced the writers...