Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uneasy Virtue. Now married to Italian Director-Producer Mario Lanfranchi (who originally signed her for Butterfly), Diva Moffo lives in an apartment in Milan, collects jazz records as an antidote to a steady opera diet. With her husband as lyricist, she writes pop songs, one of which, Citta, became an instant hit when she sang it on Italian TV ("Always, my city Your aroma is like a garden without flowers Like a tear...
...since Hollywood Lyricist Howard Dietz wrote a new English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage...
...indignant Letter to the Editor, Lyricist Lias asked the Guardian: "If we believe in God, surely it cannot be wrong to ask for his help-as the Lord's Prayer does-in delivering the world from fear and violence." NATO itself, being anxious to keep the peace, made clear that it had blessed no hymns. "If any hymn was ever proposed to the NATO Council," said one official, "it would have a good deal more trouble getting approved than any note to Khrushchev...
Perry Como Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guests: Shouter Frankie Laine, Comedian Buddy Hackett, Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein...
...Carney Meets the Sorcerer's Apprentice (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). A timely reunion of Actor Carney, Lyricist Ogden Nash and the Baird marionettes, who made a delightful TV debut last fall with Peter and the Wolf...