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...Bizet: Carmen (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Solange Michel, soprano; Michel Dens, baritone; Marthe Angelici, soprano, and others; chorus and orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique, with André Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Soprano Michel lacks the fire to make the title role burn as it should, but the performance as a whole is excellent and so is the recording...
Ever since plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband...
...which he had multiple identities: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man). In Riviera, he is a delight in all his roles. As the French ladykiller, he plays straight with just the right elegant swagger. As the American, he clowns and clogs through impersonations of Maurice Chevalier, Carmen Miranda, a kilted Scot, a puppet, a Spanish dancer and, of course, the fashionable Frenchman...
...During the 22-week season there will also be brand-new productions of Aïda (directed by Margaret Webster), Rigoletto and Carmen. The Met will mount 21 operas...
...Carmen Nicholson Gispert had known all along that her husband Francis Gispert was risking his life by helping Father Walter B. Hogan to break the labor monopoly of Manila's waterfont held by the racketeering Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipino, (TIME, March 12). After Gispert was shot dead on March i, Mrs. Gispert aided police in tracking down her husband's killer, a 34-year-old waterfront tough named Arturo de los Santos y Esteban...