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...minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength...
...Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Premiere of La Grande Bretèche, an opera composed for NBC by Stanley Hollingsworth from a Balzac story (color...
...name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the fire-eating knight-errant of war journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical swashbuckling round of good deeds and derring...
Three roaring literary lions bestrode the narrow Paris of the mid-19th century. All three wrote enormously, loved widely, spent wildly. Honore de Balzac was the greatest novelist. Victor Hugo was the greatest poet. Alexandre Dumas pere ate the most...
...through the stratosphere of world finance. He is an elegant dresser (Homburg from London's James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly...