Word: directors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capitol Hill, in the full glare of newsreel lights. the Navy at last told what had been gnawing at its heart. Its spokesman was four-star Admiral Radford, the man naval aviators everywhere recognize as their champion, the officer who built the Navy's wartime air arm as director of aviation training, a brilliant fighting commander, and long an outspoken enemy of service unification...
...bustling little Director Laszlo Halasz, the late Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier looked like a natural for his New York City Opera Co. Its conversational style, he thought, was ideally suited to his City Center opera house...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy 'Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...
Furthermore, Strauss was box office, as Halasz had proved with Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. And, best of all, he had just the cast to sing the opera. Last week, Der Rosenkavalier' s first City Opera Co. performance proved Director Halasz exactly right...
...rested on his arrival three weeks ago, he had even been persuaded to pose for photographers (who had promised not to use flashbulbs). He also arrived ready to carry out a promise made in Italy. Answering the request of his old friend (and NBC's general music director) Samuel Chotzinoff, he had cabled: "Accept Ridgefield. Make nice program." Last week, for the second time in two years, the maestro made a "nice program" for his favorite little U.S. town, and had the time of his life doing...