Word: lyrically
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...Fiorenza Quartararo a chance to rehearse Carmen with the orchestra. No critics were expected. But the New York Times's Howard Taubman dropped in. He came away singing the praises, not of Rise Stevens' Carmen, but of Fiorenza's Micaela. Wrote he: "Astonishing assurance . . . true lyric quality . . . affecting simplicity. . . . Miss Quartararo, who is also good to look at, seems to have what it takes. . . . She may be the find of the season...
Lotte Lehmann's voice is still powerful and still lyric, but she does not dread the day when she loses it: "I will not miss it a bit," says she, "of that I am quite sure. I like very much to show other sides. Oh, Gott, I have not only...
Died. Countee Cullen, 42, lyric satiric* Negro poet (Copper Sun, My Lives and How I Lost Them) and novelist (One Way to Heaven); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan. Cullen's early work was informed with a sense of suffering, his late with a sense of humor-he said it was written in collaboration with...
...London party last year, Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...
Stork Club is no substitute for a visit to a night club. But it is a good way to see: 1) what Barry Fitzgerald can do with even a thin role, and 2) how Betty Hutton can almost put over a hopeless lyric...