Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy (he recalls being so weak from hunger that he could climb to his third-floor room only once a day). Since then, he has sung widely in Europe, last summer toured as Emile de Becque with Mary Martin in South Pacific. A onetime baritone, Tozzi has a deep, warm voice in which much of the baritone quality persists, also has fine stage presence and plenty of humor (as he demonstrated as the Old Doctor in Vanessa). Tozzi ought to make a good Don Giovanni in time...
...West Coast's less-than-first-water water holes. His darkest hour came in the Elks Club in Wenatchee, Wash. The three other hillbillies in his four-billy band were delayed in the hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters up, and I lost a fingernail. But finally they began to dance. I got a hundred and fifty bucks a week, damned near more money than I'd ever seen before at one time-and I got my rhythm for Honeycomb...
...behind Mamie's number. Director Dwight Hemion insisted that Comic Tom Poston carry three spare sets of dice for his crapshooting sketch with Costello. Mamie asked for an "idiot card" to cue her at the pool, and, added Executive Producer Jules Green, "make sure that the water is deep enough where she's supposed to dive...
...destroyed; waiting and hoping are the whole of life. Composer Barber, 47, had to do a good deal of waiting himself. Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period ("At one point," says Barber, "he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months"). Barber himself named the leading character after scanning a What-to-call-your-baby book entitled Name This Child...
...Shirley Temple's Storybook last week sent viewers on a wildly nostalgic binge and helped make good the ancient Zanuck prophecy. Shirley Temple, now a full-bodiced 29, had bridged a whole generation without losing so much as a dimple. The goldilocks had turned to deep brown, and the manner was demure as dimity; but the eyes were still dewy, the acting full of artful childishness, and when she sang the show's theme song, Dreams Are Made for Children, the voice had the same lilting lisp that warmed the hearts of millions with Polly Wolly Doodle...