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That supreme musical watercolorist of English post-Romanticism, Frederick Delius, is known best today for such delicately tinted orchestral tableaux as Brigg Fair, Over the Hills and Far Away and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Last week at the Opera Society of Washington, his opera Koanga made it clear that Delius. who died in 1934, could also be effective with strong colors on a broad canvas...
...asked Roger what he did with himself. "Not much," he replied. "Movies-many, many movies. I spend a lot of time at the movies. I don't even care what movie. Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Sterile Cuckoo, Lost...
With typical Gallic shrewdness, the French calculated that the best way to outdraw the Swiss and Austrian ski resorts was to make a radical departure from the traditional cowbell and cuckoo-clock-village style. They have succeeded in doing just that by carving bold, ultramodern, eminently convenient resorts out of empty mountain space. The most popular resorts-Flaine, Avoriaz, Les Arcs and La Plagne -are located in the Savoie region; generally, the slopes they offer are every bit as formidable as the more famous runs at Kitzbühel and St. Moritz. Crisscrossed with the latest...
...food we were served, rather tasteless. Bob Hope, "America's Ambassador of Laughter," was there, with his own bland brand of social satire. "It's such a novelty seeing actors and actresses with their clothes on" and "Up until a few months ago, I thought that The Sterile Cuckoo was the story of Tiny Tim" were two of his more biting lines...
...Waldorf's Empire Room, a knockout, nonstop show that had everybody-including Liza-gasping for breath. She opens at Puerto Rico's El San Juan Hotel this week. She has just been nominated for an Academy Award for her first starring role in The Sterile Cuckoo. She will soon be seen in the title role in Otto Preminger's Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, in which she has to be convincing as a facially scarred girl in love. And in the talk stages, a Liza Minnelli TV special for late spring...