Word: binges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aging Groaner Bing Crosby, 56, never to be mistaken for a woolly-headed aborigine, is still something of a national figure in Australia, though he has never traveled Down Under. But Bing was less a mystery voice in Sydney last week after his brother, Orchestra Leader Bob Crosby, 46, got to reminiscing about the Crosby clan. Actually, said Bob, "I was 14 before I knew Bing was my brother and not my father." Why had Bing not come to Australia for a hero's welcome? "He'll never visit Australia until they put planes on tracks...
...Metropolitan was Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. At its premiere in 1931, it won 36 curtain calls, ran for four seasons. After that, Ibbetson disappeared from the Met's repertory, for no very clear reason. Says Composer Taylor: "After all, I can't go ring Mr. Bing's bell and say, 'Where's my opera?' " Last week, after a quarter-century, his opera was back-not at the Met but at New York's enterprising Empire State Festival...
...programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter of the Met's name in the world of show business-a practice that Rudolf Bing later frowned upon. He became one of the first U.S. opera singers to make a movie, The Rogue Song, followed it up with a string of schmalzy operettas: New Moon, Cuban Love Song, Under Your Spell...
Born. To Philip Lang Crosby. 25, one of Bing's balladeer boys, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 21, onetime Las Vegas showgirl: their second child, first son, the Groaner's fourth grandchild (one adopted) ; in Los Angeles...
...20th Century-Fox movie titled High Time, Crooner Bing Crosby, 56, plays the role of a middle-aged restaurateur who hankers for a college education. After matriculating in a Southern institution, Crosby has to survive a fraternity initiation requiring him to crash a cotillion ball as a belle. All trigged up in a blonde wig, false eyelashes, lipstick, rouge and falsies, Crosby volunteered: "No wonder the ladies of the day got the vapors and fainted. I feel like a barrel with the staves too tight...