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...repents, publicly confesses her sins and goes to the fire with her lover, who, for obscure reasons, is ready to die with the girl with whom he did not wish to live. Norma is usually called a singers' opera, a triumph of bel canto, and it does have magnificent vocal passages, notably two duets for the two leading female singers. But (as Bernard Shaw once said of the young Verdi) Bellini's orchestra sounds like a giant guitar; it plinkety-plinks through embarrassing military airs, mindless rages and cloying romances...
...first-magnitude stars include Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Shelley Winters. Only the season will tell whether the plays and players look as good on the boards as they promise on paper. But with the curtain about to rise on the 1956-57 season, the only thing Broadway seemed to lack was enough theaters to go around for all the shows that producers want...
...After clinging close to the lead through most of the 24-day, 2,800-mile Tour de France, the grueling bike race that winds around France and into Italy and Bel gium, Roger Walkowiak, 29, a Frenchman of Polish descent, almost came to grief on the final lap. He had a blowout 20 kilometers from the finish. But Roger reso-utely grabbed a teammate's bike, pumped madly for home, hung on to his time advantage and prizes and contracts worth more than...
...vengeance began. As the former Caid Omar Sektani and his secretary drove past a dusty camel market in Marrakech, their car was stopped by a mob, who shot both men, dragged their bodies to a nearby garbage heap and set them afire. Another mob burst into the home of Bel Mekki, shot him, cut up his body and tossed the pieces into a fire. Glaoui's old guards were caught, put into carts, tortured publicly, burned alive. Throughout the day and night mobs rampaged through the native quarters of Marrakech committing further horrors. "Don't mix in this...
...They remembered the huge levies collected at gunpoint to swell his coffers. Feeling that the returned Sultan had let the old pasha off far too easily, they formed an underground organization and drew up a list of 230 former Glaoui aides deemed deserving of death. It included onetime Khalifa Bel Mekki, who brutally broke up a shopkeepers' strike in the pasha's city, Mohammed Bouregba, who held a lucrative post as guardian of the religious wealth, as well as important caids and former police officers...