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With a fat $150,000 to spend on La Scala's new production of Aïda, Director Franco Zeffirelli soared off into Cinerama dreams of Oriental glory. Unabashed by what his fine Italian hand had done to the recent Broadway flop, The Lady of the Camellias, he went into positive paroxysms of production. And when the curtain rose on each new scene of his masterpiece, the astonished audience forgot the forlorn presence of Soprano Leontyne Price and Tenor Carlo Bergonzi to shout "Stupendo! Bravo, Franco...
...reveal its mission. The size of Lunik IV (1½ tons) led some Western scientists to believe it was designed to carry out a soft landing on the moon. But after 3 ½ days in flight, Lunik IV missed the moon by 5,281 miles. Was Lunik IV a flop? Tass reported only that experiments "had been carried out," then curtly added it would have nothing more to report about the flight...
This is a first novel by a playwright with a considerable off-Broadway reception (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor) and a recent on-Broadway flop (Lorenzo) to his credit. In it, Richardson plays hide-and-seek with the questions of freedom, reality and life's purpose. Despite the author's overfondness for obscure-and sometimes misspelled-words, such as lachrymator, ecdysize, catasta, edacious and vibrissae,* Filmore's wide-eyed discovery that stone walls do not a prison make has some fine moments of upside-down humor. When his rollicking stay behind bars is ended by an untimely parole...
...campaign issue has now boomeranged. Critics are saying that because of the Administration's record on Cuba and the apparent flop of U.S. hopes in Western Europe, the U.S. has lost prestige abroad. At the President's press conference a fortnight ago, a newsman asked Kennedy whether official prestige polls "are now being taken." He admitted that they were, but he conspicuously passed up the chance to counter the critics' charges with figures. Instead, he dismissed prestige polls by saying that the U.S. "is known to be a defender of freedom and is known to carry major...
...unstrung hero of the piece is 41-year-old Playwright Arthur Sumner Long, whose Broadway debut has left him slightly shell-shocked from the force of a direct hit. As unassuming as his play, Long, a father of two, admits he was even less prepared for a flop: "I wouldn't have dared to go home to Los Angeles. The children-they give you such a sendoff-you hate to sneak back tarred and feathered." A longtime TV writer, Long joshes about his labor pains with Never Too Late: "Eight weeks to write, six years to retype...