Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from "Salome" and "Elektra" (Inge Borkh, soprano; Chicago Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor, 2 LPs). A rising German-born soprano in two of her finest roles. The excerpts include her biggest scenes, including the only warm moments in Elektra -when the demented woman recognizes her brother. The orchestral climax is terrible in its intensity; Borkh is splendid...
...already heavy schedule of drama came a promising addition: CBS's Playhouse 90, the first hour-and-a-half drama factory in TV history. For eight months Playhouse Producer Martin (Climax!) Manulis has skirted the globe to corral top properties; he signed Keenan Wynn in Tokyo, Phyllis Kirk in London, Louis Jourdan in Paris. Of his upcoming teleplays-31 live and eight on film-most are being penned by big-time talents, e.g., H. Allen Smith, Gore Vidal. Each will cost some $100,000 to produce. Currently, four Playhouse directors are alternating assignments so that at least three complete...
...major cities last week-Brooklyn and Milwaukee-the season reached a roaring climax as the Dodgers and Braves fought it out for the National League pennant (see SPORT). Such was the objection of Ebbets Field to Umpire Vic Delmore when he made a bad call on Catcher Campanella at second base that there came a revelation, to hear the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Red Smith tell it, "that at least 34,022 people in Brooklyn have white handkerchiefs, a fact previously unsuspected." Such was the absorption of Milwaukee in the Braves that the arrival there of Campaigner...
...drops of dramatic juice from many of his scenes. In the revival meeting, Susannah's dramatic pin nacle, the congregation sings a realis tic back-country hymn while Evangelist Blitch (Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle) rants in the foreground, and the music gradually transmutes and builds to shat tering climax. On the other hand Composer Floyd is sometimes seduced from the true path by his own melodies, nota bly when he sets Susannah (Soprano Phyllis Curtin) to singing the intermina ble verses of a pretty, folk-song-like lament just when she should be in the depths of despair...
...week's TV heroines were mostly vintage Hollywood. On Robert Montgomery Presents (NBC) durable Cinemactress Constance Bennett sashayed nasally through a shrill domestic comedy called Onions in the Stew. Audrey Trotter was a voluptuous nuclear scientist in The Garsten Case on CBS's Climax! Blonde Virginia Bruce was dragged mercilessly through a bleak, attenuated version of Mildred Pierce on NBC's Lux Video Theater. The week's best drama, We Who Love Her, had Alexis Smith recover sufficiently from kleptomania to adopt her six-year-old orphaned niece on NBC's On Trial! Oscar-Winner...