Word: lilly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sopranos; the name role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Ezio Pinza, Lilli Palmer, Rex Harrison...
...daytime radio, including soap operas, has scarcely felt a tremor from the Cott bomb. Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...
...just like to do adult things"), Bosustow does training films for the armed forces, industrial films for such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen of Troy, as well as Gilbert & Sullivan operettas...
Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie, for one, was tempted to go along with Dior. Other buyers were uncertain or hostile. Snapped Adolph Schuman, president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp.: "The psychology of the American woman is not ready for a change." Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman cabled his New York office to ignore the change. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar, the doyenne of U.S. fashion arbiters, supported him. Said she: "Perfectly marvelous publicity for Dior, but you can't find any woman who wants skirts riding up around her knees...