Word: besse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, he headed by train for Rome. Rolling through northern Italy, Democrat Truman grinned wryly at big regional election posters urging, "Vote Republican!" Boisterously cheered with many a "Viva Truman!" at Rome's railroad station, he was hustled to a special VIP waiting room-so fast that Bess Truman got lost in the shuffle, gained entry only after some door pounding. Meeting newsmen, Baptist Truman told them that 1) he still favors appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, 2) he'll believe Soviet disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS) "when I see it," but 3) the U.S.S.R...
Leningrad cheered Porgy and Bess (TIME, Jan. 9), but nobody could predict how Moscow, with its love of grand opera in the grand manner, would take to the jazzy American folk opera about crapshooters along Catfish Row. By opening night last week, it was plain that Muscovites were at least curious to see the first U.S. theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Tens of thousands had applied for seats. Immense crowds swarmed around the Stanislavsky Theater hoping to get a spare ticket. A lucky 1,500 Soviet bigwigs, foreign diplomats and Russian first-nighters crammed into the theater...
...above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them with bouquets of white chrysanthemums were hundreds of officials and theatrical personalities, backed by thousands of unofficial well-wishers. First of the all-Negro cast off the train was John McCurry (who plays Crown). McCurry stretched his 6-ft.-6-in., 265-lb. frame and muttered, "This is T-shirt weather in Minnesota...
...Among the requests for exchange visits on file at the State Department: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a company of Porgy and Bess want to tour Russia; the National Arts Foundation wants to exchange exhibitions of paintings by 100 contemporary artists; a homebuilding association wants to demonstrate U.S. model homes in Moscow, and a delegation of U.S. housewives wants to show Russian ladies how to bake cakes. The town of Prescott, Ariz, wants to import a team of Cossacks to ride in its anniversary celebration...
...Actor Helmut Dantine, who worked in Alexander, announced in Madrid that he would help wealthy Play-Backer Blevins Davis film Porgy and Bess, with a cast of Spanish "unknowns...