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...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Giovanni, with London, Steber, Conner, Conley...
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Hilde Gueden, Blanche Thebom, Eugene Conley, Mack Harrell; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by the composer; Columbia, 3 LPs). When this three-act opera had its first U.S. performances last season (TIME. Feb. 23), audiences had difficulty with its baroque mannerisms and supercilious satire. Without distractions to the eye, this excellent recording allows the listener to sit back and select his pleasures: some melodious arias, some fine choruses, and some of the world's most inventive orchestration...
...seven are Judson T. Shaplin, director of Freshmen Scholarships here and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and George I. Rohrbough, also a professional educator and former president of Monticello College, Park College and the Chandler School for Women. Also in the group is Robert G. Conley, a well-known Boston lawyer who served as Cambridge chairman of Volunteers for Stevenson last year. These kind of people obviously are fine material for a conscientious and responsible school board. They deserve to be elected...
...Posse of Cadillacs. Conley had been jailed for contempt of court for refusing to surrender his daughter Lynette to the custody of his divorced Yankee wife (TIME, March 30). If Houstonians had a drop of mob justice left in their veins, wrote Little, they would organize "a posse of Cadillac owners" to invade damyankee-land and free Conley. Exclaimed Little: "It is Texans like Conley who add scent to the magnolia, color to the red hibiscus, juice to the grapefruit and stature to the San Jacinto monument...
Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...