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Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not everyone can offer his own composition, as Richard Wagner did when he gave the Siegfried Idyll to his wife. But the art of giving would be immensely enhanced if more people today took whatever skill and time they had to make gifts themselves...
...requested the court "to determine the nature and extent of the community property of the plaintiff and the defendant and that the same be divided equally between them." On that basis, Plaintiff Fisher could collect as community property about $1,000,000 of the money she earned in Cleopatra, her epic romance with Dick...
...Bridge on the River Kwai for $2,000,000 and scored a ratings blitz, the networks were convinced, if they had had any doubt before. Within days, three studios had been paid $92,500,000 for 118 films. Among them was 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, perhaps the most wildly unbusinesslike spectacular ever produced. Originally budgeted for $2,000,000, it wound up costing $40 million. It was only the $5,000,000 paid for TV rights that finally made the near-disaster into a moneymaker...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A documentary of the frantic weeks of preparation for the opening of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House and the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra. With Met General Manager Rudolf Bing, Leontyne Price, Thomas Schippers and Franco Zeffirelli...
...Sunrise. Produced last week, it was the most lavish spectacle ever conjured by the Met, a triumph in a season of new productions that so far have ranged from big-scale to boffo. In Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...