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...well away on a film career that made him a sort of "rich man's Roy Rogers" whose color spectacles were almost as popular as the off-color spectacle of his private life. The lusty, naive young knockabout from New Guinea became the bored Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they liked to romp with. To the pressagents' delight, he became notorious as a columnist puncher, cop clobberer and practical joker...
...background to make the party a serious success. Manager Moseley studied piano under famed Teacher Olga Samaroff, was a fellow student of Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood in 1941. Later, Moseley spent five years (1950-55) as director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma. Sugar Baron Keiser, Harvard '27, won a Juilliard scholarship after graduation, studied piano under Ernest Hutcheson before he took over the family business (Cuban-American Sugar Co.). Keiser still gives concerts near his home in Connecticut. After ripping through his last cadenza with a touch of a smile on his face, Keiser...
...only for purposes of New Year's Eve entertainment. In the past, Manager Rudolf Bing has done well with Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Offenbach's La Péri-chole. Last week the Met unveiled a dazzling production of another Strauss operetta, The Gypsy Baron. While it might please properly champagned New Year's Eve audiences, the Met's Gypsy is more than half a failure for ordinary, year-round consumption...
...OPERETTA SHOWCASE. Strauss, Gypsy Baron...
...secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...