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...Pocketful of Miracles (United Artists), Director Frank Capra's reglaze of a soggy old (1933) candied apple called Lady for a Day, Bette Davis, 53, finds heavier slogging on the comeback trail. She is cast as Apple Annie, one of those studiously shabby, relentlessly endearing sentimendicants who are patrolling the stretch of Broadway that is running through Damon Runyon's brain...
Curiously, Sutherland came to Donizetti and Bellini from a background in Wagner, a reversal of the process that usually finds a singer moving from lighter to heavier roles. Sydney-born, the daughter of a tailor, she concentrated at first on Wagnerian roles because "I had the build for it" (she stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 224 Ibs., now weighs 170). Eventually, on the advice of her husband, Australian Pianist Richard Bonynge, she decided that the bel canto repertory was where she belonged. She put in seven years at Covent Garden while developing the voice that would lead...
...great Wilhelm Furtwangler. In its two U.S. tours-1955 and 1956-the Philharmonic was a consistent disappointment. Sturdy, polished and restrained, the orchestra seemed to suffer both from muddy sound and lethargic spirit. On its third tour, it has seemed like a new orchestra. The sound is still heavier than that of U.S. orchestras but the heaviness no longer gets in the way of the music making. The Philharmonic contributed some performances nobody could forget-a shimmering Ravel Daphnis and Chloe, a surgingly powerful Bruckner Seventh Symphony, a glowing Beethoven Third, all of them conveyed with darkly colored intensity...
...particular, Saltonstall blamed the failure of Russia, Saltonstall blamed the failure of Russia and France to pay their share in the Congo operation for forcing the United States into heavier subsidies. It is for this reason that U.S. lawmakers are more resentful of the U.S. burden, fearing that the U.S. will be called upon more often in cases of similar need...
...over the coffee cups and asked the 43 guests how much they were prepared to contribute to Mayor Robert Wagner's campaign for reelection. Each guest stood up in turn and announced his pledge. In the end, the mayor's campaign purse was some $25,000 heavier. Not one of the guests-all builders and real estate men, many of whom do business with the city-failed to pledge at least $100, and some offered as much as $5,000. Bob Wagner smiled benignly...