Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edinburgh has featured a three-century capsule history of violin music this year, so it was only fitting that Italy, home of the violin, should send Gioconda de Vito, along with the string-strong Rome Symphony Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Roma, and Conductors Vittorio Gui and Fernando Previtali.* De Vito and her countrymen have been among the hits of the festival...
Although he is suffering from bursitis, malaria, nervous exhaustion, kidney and heart complications and perhaps stomach ulcers, Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, 62, was not too sick to take all his authority with him when he flew to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for medical treatment. Vice President Fernando Lopez, now one of Quirino's political enemies, will only preside over social functions and handle the occasional ceremonies that call for a Vice President. Anything else, said the ailing Quirino, candidate for reelection, will be handled by the President by transpacific telephone...
...this film she is in the water a good deal of the time. Esther has an opportunity to display her aquabatics in an Arkansas swimming hole and in a swimming pool in a French chateau. She also swims the English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles (Lilt) Walters. Best sequence: an underwater dream ballet, in which Esther capers...
...Paramount, for the benefit of 80-year-old Adolph Zukor, an antique stereo-camera was hauled up from the basement. Out the window went twelve days of production on Sangaree, a costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again in 3-D, with Technicolor. "Whaddya mean they won't wear glasses?" demanded Producer Bill Thomas. "They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want...
Other notable new recordings: all of Bach's English Suites played by Fernando Valenti (Westminster, 3 LPs); Kodály's Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, played by Ilona Kabos (Bartok Records); selections from Schumann's Piano Music, played by Andor Foldes (Mercury...