Word: miser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocalists are quite uneven. Only Mildred Allen in the feminine lead and Bernard Barbeau as one of the misers is vocally satisfying. Miss Allen displays a light, flexible soprano in her numerous arias, Mr. Barbeau an agile yet powerful bass. Anthony Giarraputo's characterization of the other miser is consistently funny. Peter Elvin's caricature of the hero perhaps goes beyond his intentions at times. Elizabeth Kalkhurst is appealing as the shrewd maid...
...Minute Miser. In New York, Abercrombie & Fitch began sale of Auto-Graph, a watch for motorists that has dials to check speed runs over measured miles, record elapsed time on trips with corrections for time out, keep track of gasoline consumption, or count golf strokes. Price: $90, including...
...Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...
Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Act II (Cesare Siepi, the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman conducting; Columbia). The whole act of this richly Russian score is devoted to the miser's gold-gloating monologue in his cellar. Basso Siepi sings it resonantly in poorly articulated English. The orchestra sounds full-bodied, well-schooled...
...best known among the Bauhaus painters represented at the Busch-Reisinger in Paul Klee. In the last few years his colorful, semi-cubist abstractions have become more and more popular. Besides some of these oils there are a few delicate lithographs and an especially interesting etching entitled, "The Miser." In this work Klee employed a technique which he used successfully in some of his other etchings, that of two faces registering opposite emotions superimposed on each other. One face wears the expression the world sees, the other that of the subject's own personality...