Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joans of Katharine Cornell (1936), of Ingrid Bergman (1946) and of Uta Hagen (1951). Could Julie top them? The auguries had been uncertain. "Joan of Arc was put into history," one critic had said grandly, "so that Julie Harris could play the part." However, the play had proved a flop in London with another Joan, and the table talk at Sardi's had it that Julie "hasn't got the diaphragm for these big things, you know...
...spend that it wields a potent influence on Italy's press and among its politicians. In the development field, it has expanded Italy's production of methane to almost 100 times the prewar total, a noteworthy achievement. But as sn oil producer, E.N.I, has been a bungling flop. Where it has bored only dry holes and left, private explorers later found oil; so far, E.N.I, has raised only one gusher-in the promising Abruzzi area-and that by edging up close and spudding into a pool found months before by a private U.S.-Italian company...
...whirling combination of lilting tunes, vagabonds, sentiment, and flop-house philosophy makes Pipe Dream one of the year's top musicals. It's almost as if Rogers and Hammerstein conspired to confuse the audience, making it nearly impossible to pick one song over another to hum after the show. If you prefer catchy melodies, they are there; if you want the "Some Enchanted Evening" type, they are there too. Although many of the songs could reach the Hit Parade on their own merit, each is smoothly slipped into the stage antics of the Cannery Row characters, taken from Steinbeck...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...
...near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came when Ace Conversationalist Mesta tried for an hour to worm some pleasantries from India's Prime Minister Nehru. Sputtered the ordinarily voluble ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I never had such an interview. I talked, talked, talked and got nothing...