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...noted for long, learned phrases, but in one of his reviews last week he was reduced to a simple, heartfelt "Whew!" Object of Lang's whewing: the finest Don Giovanni in recent memory, and probably the most all-round satisfying show yet mounted by General Manager Rudolf Bing at the Metropolitan Opera...
...four years Bing had been looking forward to the day when he could replace his creaking old Giovanni sets and spring the opera's boiling action loose from the Met's antiquated stage. Painter Eugene Berman, in many ways the star of the evening, brilliantly solved the problem with a second curtain halfway back on the stage which could be drawn and closed to let the scenes change at nervous speed. His solid 17th century Seville glowed with rust-brown and gold under hot blue skies, unfolded to reveal a succession of magnificent purple-and-crimson interiors...
Married. Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby, 53, granddad of U.S. crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute for style...
Spokane's Gonzaga University opened its new library, a glittering campus showplace for which sentimental old Non-Grad Bing Crosby (class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...