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Another youthful New York composer with a gift for vocal writing, Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily...
Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...
Your story about the Santa Fe Opera Association [July 15] contained yet another instance of man's inhumanity to librettists. One might assume that The Tower is an opéra sans paroles. Could there be no mention of no-longer-so-young (32) U.S. Comic Poet Townsend T. Brewster, who wrote the text...
...Mexico's state legislature waded through routine business in the closing hours of its 1957 session last March, a tough-talking, cigar-worrying statehouse reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican (circ.11,710) scented a far-from-routine story. What awoke the newsman's curiosity in Reporter Neil Addington, during a discussion of a $221,000 appropriation bill for the National Guard of New Mexico (4,000 officers and men), was the evasiveness with which officials who had drawn up the budget answered lawmakers' questions about such standout items as a $14,000-a-year telephone bill...
...airing before a legislative committee, the Guard's Adjutant General Charles Gurdon Sage, 62, a veteran of Bataan.† Japanese prison camps and 38 years as a guardsman, resigned under fire. The Guard's shenanigans were under investigation by the state attorney general, state finance director, Sante Fe district attorney and Santa Fe county grand jury...