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...buries it somewhere in the southern state of "Missitucky." The gold's magic powers turn bellowing Senator Billboard Rawkins first into a black man and then into a kindly one; take the kinks out of the romance between the Irishman's daughter (Ella Logan) and her Missitucky beau. And, bereft of his pot of gold, the leprechaun gradually-and gratefully-turns into...
...title role of Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
Arabella. Says Ella: "Strauss loved my musicality. I used to go to his house. He liked to play poker, but I never play with him because he win very much." Last month a New York Times critic called her Tosca "The most completely satisfactory Tosca . . . this city has heard in recent years...
...rehearsed Ariadne from a score annotated for her by Strauss 15 years ago. But Manhattan critics, busy passing out bravos all around for the City Opera's Ariadne, were generally cool to Ella. Said the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "She mostly stood around looking like the Statue of Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann...
...rich employers are vacationing in Florida, the butler borrows his absent boss's dress suit and town car to play gentleman (he isn't really a butler at heart, of course-only an unsuccessful painter). Before he knows it, he has rescued a lady in danger (Ella Raines) by indiscreetly signing a hot check for $103,000 payable to a tough-skinned, softhearted gambling king (William Bendix...