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Princeton boasts a veteran coach (Bill Farley), mucho lettermen, and a bushel of past clutch victories. On ice it may be different, but in chlorinated water Princeton has ruled the Ivies for half a decade. They know when the big meets are, they're always in them...
...King, the orchestrator of Muhammad Ali's bouts in Zaïre and Manila; Roone Arledge and ABC Sports, the tourney's bankrollers and broadcasters; Ring magazine, the "Bible of Boxing," which rated the worthiness of the tournament boxers; and New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr., who lent the championships his name. Now. four months and five elimination rounds after its dramatic inaugural, the tournament has been suspended, careers are in jeopardy, a grand jury is investigating charges of kickbacks and falsification of fighters' records has been revealed...
...What held their eyes was a makeshift dressing room right behind the sets. No wonder. The star of the show would regularly dash into it for a series of quick costume changes, some of her garments being scantier than others. As the opening-night audience soon learned, Soprano Carole Farley looks good in anything, but especially scanties. Pretty and bosomy, yet as long-legged and graceful as a model, Farley also has a warm, sensuous voice. She handles Berg's music, some of the most difficult of our time, as though it were by Puccini...
...short, a splendid debut. Farley's success had its Cinderella overtones as well. Reared in Moscow, Idaho, and the runner-up in the 1964 America Junior Miss Pageant, Farley, 30, has worked primarily in Europe for the past eight years. Though she already had 49 performances of Lulu to her credit, she was engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call...
...knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect she has on those around her. In the process Dexter has robbed Lulu (and Farley) of the intensity she needs. Up against Donald Gramm's fierce twin portrayals of Dr. Schön (one of Lulu's lovers) and Jack the Ripper, a touch of evil would not hurt...