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...finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage of Figaro...
...Moon and Sixpence (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Sir Laurence Olivier makes Ms American TV debut in Somerset Maugham's modern classic. With a superb supporting cast, including Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Cyril Cusak. Color...
...forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...
...argument, Orde Wingate saw himself eternally at war with "the tyranny of the dull mind," i.e., nine-tenths of his immediate military superiors and nearly all army regulations. When he was passed over for an appointment to the Staff College, Wingate strode to a Yorkshire hilltop where General Sir Cyril Deverell, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stood in the midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking-to (eventually he won his appointment). Time and again later, Wingate was to go over the heads of his field commanders and appeal...
Humanity & Virtue. Six of the stories that Feng collected-and presumably edited-have been translated by English Scholar Cyril Birch. Today's readers will have to suspend all their literary leanings to appreciate the tales. They move with remarkable smoothness, but their authors cared not a kumquat about probability or credibility in the modern sense. The plots are supported by coincidence, and the passage of years is treated as offhandedly as a spilled cup of tea. What makes them interesting centuries later is a mixture of lusty humanity and shrewd weighing of human nature, an awareness that life...