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...Evening for Richard Rodgers. Out of friendship for Composer Rodgers (and, incidentally, to plug the women's shoes made by Sponsor U.S. Shoe Corp.), Mary Martin made her first TV appearance, accompanied by Rodgers at the piano, and singing I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy. Bing Crosby crooned It's Easy to Remember from Rodgers' 1935 movie Mississippi, Valerie Bettis danced the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet from 1936's On Your Toes. Other singers and dancers ran through assorted Rodgers numbers dating from his 1925 Garrick Gaieties to his current South Pacific...
Last week, back she was, for the first time in 19 years, to sing Rosalinda in a benefit performance of Rudolf Bing's restyled Fledermaus. She first sang the role more than 30 years ago in Vienna. Tall, straight and blue-eyed as ever at 63, Maria gave the mid-century Met a course in the grand old style...
...Cross Rally (Tues. 10.30 p.m., all radio & TV networks). President Truman, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland...
...overhaul job, General Manager Rudolf Bing had turned to the Met's own staff of directors and set designers. Staff Director Hans Busch planned to give "Cav," a turbulent little tragedy of Sicilian chivalry, a thoroughly realistic treatment. He slipped up on some details. Sample: when cuckolded Alfio challenged swaggering Seducer Turiddu, Alfio stood well back, out of all possible harm's way, looking considerably more foolish than furious. But despite such incongruities, and the fussy set and cluttered stage that offended Critic Downes, the singing (notably by Tenor Richard Tucker and Soprano Zinka Milanov) almost turned Cavalleria...
...film's plot, however feeble, is enough to cramp the free-style wackiness of Martin & Lewis. In turn, their witless routines put a blight on whatever slim fun the play once offered in situations and dialogue. Between straight-man chores, Crooner Martin imitates Bing Crosby in the picture's songs, including one that gets billing as a Crosby imitation. Though he mugs, screeches, gyrates, even swishes through a female impersonation, Comedian Lewis sorely lacks one prop that has bolstered his success: a well-oiled nightclub audience...