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CAPITAL AIRLINES, having trouble breaking into a jet-age profit (1959 loss: more than $1,000,000), will have its corporate face lifted to present a more attractive appearance to travelers. Capital will dump its "garish red" color scheme in favor of a "soothing blue," will retire its flying eagle trademark for a new oval...
Lyrical Lassitude. The Frankfurt production is properly corrosive. Designer Teo Otto uses a garish circus scene throughout the opera, changes scenes merely by changing the props. In the Paris sequence, Otto projects Lulu's progress on a huge screen, in drawings recalling Toulouse-Lautrec; the last one shows Lulu standing naked with black handprints all over her body. Conductor Georg Solti leads his cast and huge orchestra with deft skill, and at each performance Soprano Helga Pilarczyk scores triumphs in the fiendishly difficult title role...
Bright Boom. In the garish '20s of the black bottom and the Charleston, Gilda's shimmy seemed to sparkle with a special sheen. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She worked with the big names: Will Rogers, Gallagher & Shean. She earned the reputation of being one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she could brag of having made $4,000,000 in only ten years on the stage...
...Overture and Triple Concerto (with Lenny conducting from the piano), Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Conductor Bernstein gave it all his familiar body English, and the orchestra plugged hard, but the sound was sometimes edgy. And even excellent playing could not save Shostakovich's Fifth from its own garish pretensions. Nevertheless, Lenny and the orchestra won a standing ovation...
...penchant for vegetal forms led to the functionless fantasies in glass of Louis Tiffany, America's gifted designer. The most interesting forms of his stylized works, such as the flower vase in this show, are impractical and, consequently, must be looked at as sculptures in glass. Unfortunately, Tiffany's garish color schemes lessen their value as works...