Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where had he gone? He soon answered both questions. Registered letters, mailed in Florida and stuffed with greenbacks, began arriving in New York. A Staten Island bank which had lent him money got $5,000; another got $6,000. His friends began getting money, too. FBI men learned that before leaving he had visited his parents' Staten Island cottage while they were out of town. The agents went in, found $14,975 in two envelopes, and a note, ". . . Enclosed is money . . ." Altogether, from one place and another, they recovered $76,355. Despite his expensive mode of life...
Ingrid Bergman, about to start work on a new movie on the island of Stromboli, took time off to take in the sights of Rome. Her guide through the ruins: Director Roberto Rossellini...
...whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount...
...City Opera's energetic little Director Laszlo Halasz had pulled out all the stops to put on Troubled Island; he had Haitian Jean Leon Destine and his troupe to do the voodoo dances. He would have had to look far for a better baritone than the Met's burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully...
...Misery. But it did. Poet Hughes's libretto turned out to have far more peroration ("Children of misery, tomorrow we must be free," etc.) than punch. And Composer Still's music, sometimes lusciously scored, sometimes naively melodic, often had more prettiness than power. In all, Troubled Island had more of the 'souffle of operetta than the soup bone of opera. With a little seasoning here & there, some listeners thought, it could even be made into a Broadway hit. Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined after taking...