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Maria Callas: Great Arias from French Operas (Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, conducted by Georges Prêtre; Angel). Callas deserts the Italian roles in which she became famous for the heroines of Gluck, Bizet, Gounod, Charpentier. The voice is predictably wobbly in spots, but the interpretations are uniformly superb, suggesting that Callas may still have a new repertory to explore...
Outstanding favorites include Cornell's Tom Mikulina in the high jump. Mack in the two-mile. Navy's Pete Golwas in the 60, Yale's Bill Flippin in the hurdles, and Cornell's Fran Smith...
...Lute, Flute is not all bad. The opening number, "Lute, Flute, Lyre, and Sackbut," is the best piece of music in the show, and the second scene, a Harvard-Radcliffe dispute between Fran Blakeslee and Morey, contains some extremely clever lyrics. (Unfortunately, the next four scenes are the revue's worst.) The last scene in Act I--a spoof of Gordon Linden--and the three numbers at the end of the show are also successful. "Paradise Permanently Lost," in which an American an Italian, and a Swede try to make a movie out of Milton's work, is particularly fine...
...cast Barry Levin, Pat Fay, and Fran Malina stand out. Mr. Levin has good, strong voice and an expressive face. Miss Fay and Miss Malina also can belt it out with the best of them, and what's more, they are good-looking. Like the two other girls, Miss Blakeslee is quite attractive, although she may not be versatile enough for this sort of show; but if she sings louder she will be all right. Gerry Dale is occasionally very funny, and Mr. Morey nearly manages to overcome the fact that he can't quite carry a tune. Mr. Paul...
...closest approximations of a free election in ail of Haiti's dictator ridden history, François Duvalier won the presidency in 1957 on his record as a selfless country doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four...