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...island's king, about to die of boredom, is assassinated), C-B flies out to compound the calamity, ably assisted by Gaillardia's Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), who embodies everything fine and honest in Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize," says...
...choir swept through Washington's Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul with a congregation of Government bigwigs, including President Eisenhower. The processional hymn had been chosen with care; the leadership of U.S. labor was out in force to dedicate three stained-glass windows donated by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in memory of three labor giants of different faiths...
...Montreal-born Maureen Forrester, the performance was one more demonstration that she now stands in the front rank of contraltos-although it is only nine years since she walked fresh from a church choir to the studio of her teacher, Dutch Lieder Singer Bernard Diamant, who told her, "You don't know how to sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Easter music and ballet, with the University of Utah Corps de Ballet and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir...
Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...