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About halfway through The Threepenny Opera last night, Susan Channing walked out onto Aggassiz stage to sing. She plays Jenny--Lotte Lenya's old part. She is supposed to be a tough whore, and she she looks like a kewpie doll. She has a sweet, smooth voice that certainly doesn't suggest here upbringing. She isn't wearing very much either...
CAMERA 3 (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Bertolt Brecht's dramatic exercises for Shakespearean actors are presented for the first time on television. Lotte Lenya demonstrates the exercise for Romeo and Juliet...
...great Lotte Lenya has lowered herself to appear as Rosa Klebb, the lesbian SPECTRE spymaster who starts the diabolical plan against Bond in motion. She's come a long way from Dreigroschenoper but still manages an effective performance. That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected...
...Bond and his musky Russki escape with a cipher machine. But the end is not yet. In the next hour or so, 007 is slugged by a phony British agent, bombed by a passing helicopter, pursued by an avalanche of rats, and drop-kicked by a homicidal charlady (Lotte Lenya) with a poisoned dagger planted in the toe of her terribly sensible shoes...
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY (Columbia) suffered a long, unjust obscurity but may soon find its way into the opera repertory, despite the libretto's bizarre vision of capitalistic morality. This recording, now six years old, has become a classic. Lenya sings the role of Jenny the prostitute, and Heinz Sauerbaum, the great German theater tenor, is Jimmy, her doomed, desperate lover...