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...slim but full-figured, Patrice Munsel is typical of a new kind of grand-opera star-as un-European, as American, as Ethel Merman or Mary Martin.* In European opera, with its polished Viennese, its lyric but undisciplined Italians, its meticulous Germans, there is nothing quite like...
...worry left about her career, it is that she may get too many soubrette roles. She knows that her voice has not enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...
Galatea, the old story of Pygmalion and the beautiful statue come to life, was done in the classic style of Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber...
...month before his death in 1939, Irish Poet William Butler Yeats wrote to a friend: "And I do nothing but write verse." It was not the lyric verse that once sang: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"; now it had a marblelike quality, a classic vigor and clarity that most younger poets envied. A few months earlier, at 73, he had written his epitaph...
Marines Pass in Review (Sat. 5 p.m., ABC). Written, acted and produced by Marines and played to a cheering, whistling Leatherneck audience, the first transcribed show leaned heavily on a Camp Pendleton band that was as handy with a love lyric as a marching song. Sandwiched among the musical numbers were several Marine Corps skits, balanced neatly between toughness and sentimentality. Possibly the biggest surprise for Marine veterans was a middle "commercial" selling the hearty, frolicsome outdoor life of boot training...