Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leslie, the high-voltage heroine, through a sticky Malayan melee of passions. Stalking Maugham's female primeval like a white hunter was Wyler's inquisitive camera, peering through all the flora and fauna into the hurt eyes of the cuckolded husband (John Mills, making his American TV debut), or capturing the guilt written across the sallow face of the barrister (Michael Rennie) who helps Leslie beat the rap. With pace and polish, Wyler distilled all the steamy Maugham atmosphere and dry rot of colonial life, brought believability to some papier-mache archetypes. Oldtime Cinemactress Anna May Wong...
...Letter originally starred Katharine Cornell on Broadway; Jeanne Eagels did it in the first movie (1929), and Bette Davis, with Wyler directing, in the second (1940). Wyler picked The Letter for his TV debut (on NBC's Producer's Showcase) because "in an unfamiliar medium I wanted a familiar subject." On a three-week schedule, he staged the entire production the first week, spent the other two on technique. "TV is so complex technically, it leaves little or no time for acting and directing." But by drawing on his broad movie experience, Wyler could see the whole...
...generally unexciting program at Symphony Hall this week: well-travelled Walter Piston's 5th Symphony; Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, Schumann's 4th Symphony, and part of a Beethoven Quartet played by the strings. Today at 8:30 p.m. Michael Rabin, violinist, will make his Boston debut tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., in Symphony Hall. His program includes Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Prokofiev's Sonata, and Briten's Waltz...
...fracas (TIME, Nov. 21). Sued for $300,000 by a Manhattan attorney who keeps on claiming that she owes him 10% of her earnings since he launched her in 1947 (when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted her at New York's Idlewild Airport, and Prima Donna Callas fell happily into the arms of her papa, a Bronx pharmacist...
...royal scholarship, sent him to Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline in La Bohéme) and three years later achieved Boris, which had been his musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited him to New York in 1950, his visa was denied-Christoff never learned why. This...