Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popularity as a singer is nearly as unassailable as that of Bing Crosby. Each Saturday night after the show, a loyal band of bobby-soxers gathers outside his studio. Says Perry: "A couple of these kids try to protect me from the others...
...subtle rapier-thrusts compared to the other film on the Brattle bill. Down Memory Lane, a collection of old Hollywood comedy sequences, offers such attractions as the Keystone Cops in a typical chase, W. C. Fields as a dentist searching for a patient's mouth in his beard, and Bing Crosby with a full head of hair. Sound effects have been dubbed in expertly, and the old-timers are consistently hilarious. As a matter of fact, the present-day Steve Allen is plainly overwhelmed. His comic narration serves mainly to illustrate how much the art of slapstick has declined...
Stage Magic. The Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing spent most of his money and effort on sets and costumes (by Rolf Gerard), and for once the decor onstage was brighter than the intermission melee in Sherry's bar. Highlights: ¶ Living murals in the opening tavern scene, with a pair of bacchantes astride barrels, pouring wine and beer into golden goblets and steins waved by bare, disembodied arms...
Since then, the Met has decided that it cannot afford not to afford Callas. "In May, Mr. Bing came to Italy," she explained last week. "He saw me. We spoke. We were all right together." Both Manager Bing and Soprano Callas steadfastly refused to disclose her salary, but educated guesses put it at $2,000 per performance. Manager Bing announced that Callas would open the Met's 1956 season in her famed role, Norma, and chivalrously kissed her hand in her Chicago dressing room for the benefit of photographers. As to salary, he only remarked: "Our singers work...
...Masters (Bing Crosby; Decca, 3 LPs). The sequel to Crooner Crosby's last Decca album, consisting of original recordings made between 1934 and 1949. The title is a bit pretentious for even such a yellowed parchment as Crosby, but it does contain some rare items, e.g., Dear Old Girl, Someday, Sweetheart, It's the Dreamer...