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...great many stage and film actors used to stimulate that faculty, among them Jeff Chandler, Van Heflin, Richard Widmark, Agnes Moorehead and E.G. Marshall. To many performers, ra dio drama remains more than a warm memory. Moorehead and Marshall, for example, are returning to CBS Radio Mystery Theater at far less than their customary salaries. "There is a place for the spoken word in our lives," Marshall insists. "Just think of how much fun it will be to turn off the lights at home, rest your eyes and get involved, using your mind instead of just sharing...
...Estro Armonico (The Harmony of Being) is vintage Cranko (1963) that turns out to be a rather mechanical stu dio exercise in balletic geometry. Soloists on stage cavort to solo instrumental moments from three Vivaldi concert! while the ensemble blends with orchestral passages. Plotless but pretty, the work does show off the almost Bolshoi-like muscularity of the Stuttgart's unusually strong male corps and the gamine pertness of lithe Birgit Keil...
When Pahopin and crew are not on the air, the camera is focused on a stu| dio clock, and on dials and gauges connected to rooftop instruments that tell the wind velocity and direction and the temperature just outside Parker Towers. Occasionally, the camera is switched to focus on cards advertising the wares and services of local merchants, who can buy three months of spot commercials for $150 (more than 40 have already signed...
Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
There, both were arrested last week, along with two Frenchwomen and a Brazilian national who were also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...