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...years the clutter in Opera News's office on Manhattan's Madison Ave. has grown to the point of suffocation-fading autographed photos of opera stars cover the walls, documents stuff ancient filing cabinets. Editor Peltz's green tin lunchbox sinks into a deeper litter of folders and memos each day, as she tackles the problems of writing about an opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every possible angle...
...This Tartar woman is fer me," drawls Big John through his Fu Manchu mustache as Susan ("much woman") Hayward goes dawdling sensuously through the desert on a litter borne by sweating slaves. He kills her guards and carries her off. "Know this, woman," gruffs Wayne, looking about as uncomfortable as a right tackle caught reading Swinburne, "I take you fer wife." But as he pulls Hayward hayward, Hayward pulls away. "For me," she snarls, "there is no ease while you live, Mongol." Says John: "Yer beooduful in yer wrath." He takes her on a trip to the court...
...Kimathi's camp recently has provided a vivid picture of the once great chieftain in his twilight hour. Broken in health and mind, 35-year-old Dedan Kimathi now spends his days making wild speeches to the jungle trees and his nights raving endlessly. He lies on a litter of branches, blubbering and blabbering about reform in the Liberation army, while his friends search the woods for monkeys to eat. Whenever a police patrol comes near, the 20 loyal henchmen (and teen-age henchwomen) who still surround him hustle Kimathi into a nearby cave and gag him to keep...
...give an added fillip to its annual luncheon, France's Goncourt Academy (which meets this week to bestow its award and bestsellerdom on a French author) has invited an artist to come make its family portrait. When news of the artist's name was announced, Le Figaro Litter air e issued a warning: "Under the circumstances, it will be necessary to banish the bottles and partridges from the tables, for the painter honored by the Goncourt does not like rosy cheeks, but prefers gaunt figures bent over plates garnished with fish vertebrae." The guest artist: Bernard Buffet...
Forty-five steps below Massachusetts Avenue is a world where wind, sun, and week-end rain never penetrate. Row on row of bare bulbs cast their glare on shadowy caverns. The only moisture to reach the tile and litter clings loosely to the windows and roofs of swaying trolley cars...