Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of four half-hour variety shows, Impresario Sol Hurok put some of music's brightest stars into dazzling constellation. The camera let the viewer hover over the fingers of Guitarist Andres Segovia and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, linger in closeup on the intense face of Marian Anderson, share the lilt of Verdi's La Traviata with Victoria de los Angeles, stand amid the powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently than in its first edition ten months ago, that...
...wrong, but we must end it all without publicity. We must find a compromise." He refused to attend a Cominform conference in Rumania where the satellite leaders were to gang up on Tito. That was enough for Stalin. At a signal Gomulka's comrades turned on him. General Marian Spychalski was Gomulka's chief denouncer. Gomulka was accused of being "permeated with the Pilsudski spirit." Economic Minister Mine accused him of betraying his underground comrades to the Gestapo. Said Polit-burocrat Jakub Berman: "Let Comrade Gomulka repudiate his mystical notions and let him march together with the party...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Sol Hurok's Festival of Music, with Artur Rubinstein, Marian Anderson, Andres Segovia, Richard Tucker, Narrator Jose Ferrer...
Sweeping into Paris from London, symmetrically stacked (35-23-35) Marian McKnight, 19, Miss America of 1957, was hounded by newshounds. After the publicity-shy creature of publicity coyly evaded them at the posh Hotel Meurice, reporters picked up her trail again, cornered her at the entrance to the Folies-Bergère. Their brief interview proved unilateral-all questions and no answers. "Miss Amérique?" politely inquired a France Soirman. She responded, reported he, "with the sad countenance of a doe at bay." Soon, stated France Soir sadly, the door of the Folies-Bergère "swallowed Miss...
...Famed Contralto Marian Anderson broke the singers' color barrier two years ago in the role of the Negro Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. Three weeks later, Baritone Robert McFerrin made his Met debut as Amonasro in Aïda. Ballerina Janet Collins was the first Negro ever to be featured at the Met (in 1951), also...