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When Rudolf Bing set out last spring to improve the "visual aspects" of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the first eyesores he operated on was the Met's stumbling opera ballet. Since dancing appears in some of the most popular operas in the standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...familiar female voice chirped in, "That's my boy." As the verses went on there was more motherly comment ("Take a bigger breath next time, son") and finally a chummy duet on the last chorus. Last week, following a family-singing trail somewhat haphazardly blazed last summer by Bing Crosby and his son Gary (TIME, Aug. 7), Mary (South Pacific) Martin and her 19-year-old son Larry cut their first records together...
...competing with her philoprogenitive (four sons) old friend Bing Crosby? Hardly, said Mary. Even with her daughter Heller Halliday, 9, coming along, "I would run out of kids before he does...
...Bruno Quirinetta is an Italian Bing Crosby, Phil Harris and Spike Jones all rolled into one. Recording with his seven-piece Orchestra Quirinetta, he is one of Italy's biggest-selling popular artists. Wherever he plays at fashionable clubs in Rome, Milan, Florence or Rapallo, Italians surrender in droves to his particular brand of gaiety-an infectious mixture of nonsense and nostalgia...
...Bing Crosby Show (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Ella Fitzgerald. TELEVISION