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Road to Bali (Paramount) is the sixth in the highly successful Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Road series* and the first in Technicolor. Like its predecessors, this entry hews to the established Road musicomedy formula: plenty of gags & girls strung on a practically non-existent plot line. This time, Bing and Bob are a couple of broken down vaudevillians who hire themselves out as deep sea divers in a quest for sunken treasure off the island of Vatu. Along the way, they encounter a dastardly South Sea prince (Murvyn Vye), a Balinese princess of Scottish ancestry (Dorothy Lamour...
...general, the Met was in good form all week. Furthermore, Director Bing proved to have some scenic surprises up his well-tailored sleeve when it came to the Met's 300th performance of Lohengrin. That good old standby, he modestly announced, had been somewhat restyled for the occasion. However, the only perceptible resemblance between the new Lohengrin and the old was in Wagner's four-hour score. Met Stage Director Dino Yannopoulos, 32, working with Designer Charles Elson of the company staff, took Josef Urban's rich old sets apart, reset the best of the gloomy...
...Director Bing chose opening week to announce another bold venture. Early in December, said he, a performance of Carmen will be televised from the stage of the Met, piped on a closed circuit to some 30 motion-picture houses in cities from coast to coast. If people will pay (sometimes) to see televised prizefights, perhaps they will pay to see televised opera. In any case, Bing means to find...
Assets & Liabilities. The Met needs queues: new productions cost money. In addition to Forza this season, Bing is restyling Puccini's La Boheme, to be sung in two versions-Italian and English-and staging the U.S. premiere of Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, also in English (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). These will bring to twelve the number of new productions Bing has staged in his first three seasons at the Met. Almost all of them have been cheered by the critics (exceptions: 1951's Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci). But even after forgiveness...
...bright side: most of Bing's new productions will count as capital assets for seasons to come...