Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...busy week at the opera, too. Among other things, the Met offered a new twin-bill production of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Not everybody was satisfied with the way Rudolf Bing & Co. went about streamlining the old favorites (see below), but the singing was good...
...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...