Word: oberon
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...Rustics. In the supernatural passages Britten concentrated on fantastical sounds: mysterious tinklings of the celesta, curious patterns of bells, vocal parts accompanied only by harps and percussion. To place the world of the fairies at a clear remove from the world of mortals, Britten wrote the part of Oberon for countertenor (Alfred Deller), a high-pitched, constricted voice never heard in modern opera, and Titania for high soprano (Jennifer Vyvyan). The music of the lovers, on the other hand, was mainly characterized by throbbing, Wagnerian chords while the music for the rustics was simple and zestful-as broadly comic...
...world courtship that was faithfully recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties, including Gene Tierney, Joan Fontaine, Yvonne de Carlo, Lady Furness, Kim Novak, Merle Oberon and assorted French, Italian and Greek film stars. Said a marquise reminiscently: "Aly could handle more women simultaneously than most men can in a lifetime." He also understood the far more difficult art of letting women down gently, and is fondly remembered by nearly all his ex-wives and ex-mistresses...
...Britain's Princess Alexandra, Nicole Alphand (wife of France's ambassador to the U.S.), Manhattan Social Lioness Peggy Bancroft, Elizinha Moreira Salles (wife of Brazil's ambassador to the U.S.), Monaco's Princess Grace, Paris-Palm Beach Hostess Gloria Guinness, Cinemactresses Audrey Hepburn and Merle Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome's Countess Consuelo Crespi, Detroit...
...German industry. Songbird Patti Page will be involved in "a new TV concept" called The Big Record, a guest-laden paean to the recording industry. CBS will ride the range with Have Gun, Will Travel, bring over England's top-seeded commercial show, Assignment Foreign Legion, with Merle Oberon, and cast Eve Arden in a series based on Emily Kimbrough's autobiography, It Gives Me Great Pleasure. TV's most ambitious drama mill, Playhouse 90, reopens this month with Jack Palance and Fashion Model Suzy Parker in Barnaby Conrad's Death of Manolete, followed...
...London. Hungarian-born Korda made his first films in a shed on the outskirts of Budapest after World War I, in 1931 put the British film industry on the map with his The Private Life of Henry VIII, with a cast of unknown performers (Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon). He married Actress Oberon, lost a fortune, then bounded back with London Film Productions, Ltd., was knighted...