Word: elsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Respect, Not Money. All of this only makes the girls work harder. Philadelphia Cellist Elsa Hilger, 62, who in 1935 became one of the first women ever to play with a major U.S. orchestra, feels that she is "one of the gang." She insists upon carrying her own bags, does not mind the bothersome business of changing behind trunks and fussing with her wardrobe while on tour (harpists find that pleated skirts stay neatly pressed if wound through the strings of their instruments). Says Boston's Leinsdorf: "Uniformly, the women's pride is so great that their attendance...
Marco the Magnificent looks great on paper. It has a big budget, seven famous names (Anthony Quinn, Horst Bucholz, Omar Sharif, Elsa Martinelli, Orson Welles, Akim Tamiroff, Gregoire Asian), and a hero who was one of history's great adventurers: Marco Polo. On film, unfortunately, it looks terrible...
...conveys a gentle, human Lohengrin, and William Dooley makes a rich-voiced, menacing Telramund. But the female roles-usually easier to fill-are not nearly so satisfying. Rita Gorr is cruelly miscast as Ortrud, and Lucine Amara's voice is not big enough for the crucial role of Elsa. The Wagner devotee will find here a superb rendering of the master's orchestration, but he will inevitably wonder why, with all their resources, Leinsdorf and RCA Victor let a definitive Lohengrin glide away like the swan down the River Scheldt...
BORN FREE. A lioness named Elsa is as winning on the screen as she was in Joy Adamson's celebrated animal biography...
BORN FREE. Another African saga, based on Joy Adamson's book about Elsa the lioness. The cat cast is in top form...