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...written a play that is clever, fast-moving and never tedious. Director Emily Mann has done some nice things too. Her opening is particularly striking, with Casey a backstage silhouette pacing anxiously before she has to come out on stage and do her routine. Mann has skillfully used John Caruso's recorded music to raise the pitch of melodramatic tension during the blackouts. And on the most part the cast was fine...
...play's hero, Bentley (Jack Murdock), speaks ad copy. He is the adjunct of his possessions, the stereo set, transistor and white antiseptic machine for nonliving that he calls his "home unit." He adores his wife (Barbara Caruso) though she makes him a voyeur to his own cuckolding. He has unquestioning faith in his friends, though they are parasitic phonies. Perishing in a snowdrift of optimistic clichés, Bentley loses all - home, wife, job, future...
...auditions, Beverly finally joined the New York City Opera, beginning the stint as a highly regarded utility singer that eventually led to her emergence in 1966. Conspicuously missing from the Sills dossier, then as now, was the name of the Metropolitan Opera. "I happened in a different way from Caruso, or Price, or any of the others," says Beverly. "I made it without the Met. I am a revolutionary...
Died. Billie Burke, 85, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, herself a renowned stage and screen star; in Los Angeles. Red-haired and blue-eyed, she reigned as a Broadway beauty through the early 1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering...
Fehrs prevailed in an exhausting overtime period after he and Guzzo tied, 6-6, in regulation time. The man who defeated Fehrs three times in the NCAA finals while he was at Michigan, Mike Caruso, was content to watch the proceedings from the stands...