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...seen on the sea. But uninhabited San Benedicto Island is far from shipping lanes, and the volcano went on smoking and rumbling in private until it was reported by a tuna boat. Last week the first scientific report on its goings-on was made by Oceanographer Robert S. Dietz of the Navy Electronics Laboratory at San Diego...
Alerted by the tunamen, Dr. Dietz flew down in an Air Force weather-watching B29. The volcano was still going strong, but probably not as strong as when it was younger. It has built a cinder cone some 800 ft. above the former level of the rocky island. Every five or ten minutes it shoots up tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also...
...Howard Dietz and Garson Kanin did not even try to follow the original text in their new English version. Using the fantastic plot as a framework, they packed both the dialogue and songs with as many jokes, double entendres, and Ogden Nashian rhymes as possible. Combining sex, satire, and slapstick, Dietz and Kanin have produced a vehicle which should become one of the most popular items on the Metropolitan's repertoire, despite its dubious artistic significance...
...give Strauss's 76-year-old Viennese farce of double identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...
...sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with far-from-bashful bumps and grinds...