Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whoosh of jet exhaust. The Prime Minister directed the huge aircraft as far as the English Channel, took over the controls for one long stretch, then landed at an airport near his home in London. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," said Eden scrambling out. "It was as smooth as a magic carpet...
...this classic gambit that she falls completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse, he retires to England and an armchair. Hildegarde, having conquered all Europe with her magic voice (dubbed in by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), now appears at London's Covent Garden. Morgan rushes to the concert, pits his plain brain and pure heart against the hypnotic evil of Svengali. Love, eventually, conquers all, and Svengali dies, apparently of mortification...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will mount a newly designed production of The Magic Flute for its sole contribution; the Philharmonic-Symphony will offer two Mozart programs and play his music a bit more than usual the rest of the season. Closer to the composer's home territory, the activity gets more feverish. Vienna, in fact, has had to organize a central Mozart Festival Bureau, as a kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean...
...will be met. He scoffs at alleged proofs of the existence and powers of psi. "There is no plausible way to explain these details except in terms of special intelligent agents-spirits or poltergeists or whatever one wishes to call them . . . Parapsychology . . . still bears in abundance the markings of magic...
...Gallienne will star again in Alice in Wonderland. Maurice Evans becomes a son of the American Revolution for George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. Opera will range from Puccini's Madame Butterfly through a new English version of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin to world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India...