Word: lune
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hutton) kept hooking men with a fishing rod into a diamond-studded coach to snatches of Beethoven's Pathétique. Two gentle poodles (those feuding balletomanes, the Marquis de Cuevas and Choreographer Serge Li far) fought a duel with ostrich feathers to the music of Claire de Lune. Minerva the black panther (Callas) appeared in a red wig to music from Weber's Der Freischutz and devoured a chesty white dove (Tebaldi). Casarosa the old sheepdog (Rubi Rubirosa) pounced on two young things to Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster...
...heard that both Columbia Records and RCA Victor (and every other big record company) were scrambling to sign him, he told Judd to play them against each other, get him a contract "that'll guarantee that if I go in one day and want to play Clair de lune, they'll have to record it." Last week RCA Victor gave him one of the fattest contracts ever offered a young artist, with built-in guarantees for "longterm security." Within hours Van's concert fee jumped from $1,000 to $2,500 plus, shortly became a deal whereby...
...Clair de Lune. In Hartford, Conn., Clarence S. Grant, charged by police with breach of the peace, resisting arrest and lascivious carriage, pleaded "impaired awareness...
...stand around being celebrities. But the singers worked to good effect: Lola Fisher, understudy for Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews, singing I Could Have Danced All Night as if she could have; Perry Como's cool, limp delivery of new lyrics to Debussy's Claire de Lune...
...seriously damaged by an overlong potpourri of Tchaikovsky melodies, played by a full orchestra and conducted by a Borge suddenly turned serious maestro. But despite everything, his comic talents survived the screen, and he got his deserved laughs as he coughed his way through Debussy's Claire de Lune, tangoed his way through Jealousy while sitting at the piano, doublecrossed the studio audience by playing Tea for Two off key while the audience was humming it, took his bows with the stagehands...