Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maid for Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves...
With a thunder of hoofs and a "Hi-yo, Silver . . . awa-ay!", The Lone Ranger this week gallops headlong into his 20th year on radio. As a reward for fighting virtue's fight in comic books, cartoon strips and on TV (Thurs. 7:30 p.m., ABC) as well as radio (Mon., Wed., Fri. 7:30 p.m., ABC), the masked rider grosses $5,000,000 a year. Most of the profits go to George W. Trendle, 67, a Detroit businessman (movie theaters, radio stations) who had the original idea for the Ranger back in 1932. His formula for the show...
Miracle in Milan. A comic masterpiece of fantasy by Italy's Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica (TIME...
Novelists Stafford, Newby and Auchincloss all write about life. Each is serious, sincere, talented. But each lacks robustness, a sense of the comic and a feeling for the grainy give & take of human experience. All three tell a story well, but all tell thin ones...
...only prisoner who defied the G.P.U. One skinny little Jewish tailor, who openly declared himself an anarchist but refused to admit to counter-revolutionary charges, "survived an almost uninterrupted 'conveyer' lasting for 31 days and . . . nights." Another prisoner, a Kharkov doctor, won through by dint of sheer comic genius and a wonderful memory for names. He not only confessed instantly, but wrote down the names of all his "accomplices"-i.e., "all the several hundred doctors in Kharkov." When the examiner refused to accept such a sweeping statement, the doctor addressed a strong letter to the authorities complaining that...