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...Julius Rudel [the director] called me and said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord who is elegant, arrogant and distinguished. I think you are just right for the part.' " Mused Bing: "The only other time, I appeared onstage were to announce in front of the curtain that Mr. [Franco] Corelli would not sing tonight. And I did that often enough...
...safe prediction is that bloc politics will continue, on both sides of the old Iron Curtain. Western Europe will continue on its present track: toward a fairly sophisticated economic federation, but probably well short of a situation in which a Liverpool docker, say, or a Turin auto worker would actually have to ponder, as he steps into a voting booth, whether Willy Brandt would indeed make a good President of Europe...
...than Person of the Year? Replied Lemmon: "...I'm glad to be anything!" Steinem was somewhat more partisan. Accepting an award "For Outstanding Contribution to Personhood," she remarked: "It was important that I come here to end 125 years of sexual deprivation at Hasty Pudding." With that the curtain went up on the annual Hasty Pudding show, Bewitched Bayou, and a Harvard cast in drag-with only one pair of shaved armpits...
More rewarding was the aptly named Jackpot by Gerald Arpino, the company's resident choreographer. It was a mod, witty duet that suggested a Greek god and goddess having a sexual romp in outer space. As the curtain lifted, a shower of colored star beams descended to reveal Glenn White flexing his muscles on a cube-shaped platform. From behind the cube popped the curvy figure of Erika Goodman, who led White on a merry chase that culminated twelve minutes later in a highly suggestive climax. The cube lit up, a smoke bomb went off, rubber balls soared through...
...Mischievous Nigger starring Anthony Snow in the title role. The story of 1914's road tour of Legend of Loravia is one of the funniest things to come from the Pudding--certainly far more humorous than most of the shows. One evening an informal party was held backstage before curtain time and everyone had a bit too much of his or "her" favorite beverage. As Roger S. Hewlett '33 recounted it: "When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero in a tree, cast kneeling before it on the ground--their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from...