Word: oberon
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Lehmann pinned his hopes to two monster new productions: Rameau's forgotten Les Indes Galantes and Weber's beautiful but silly Oberon. "I wanted to give people plenty to look at," he says. "Les Indes has a shipwreck with thunder and lightning. In Oberon, cities appear by magic and goddesses are wafted to the clouds." Last week, the Paris public and press were devouring the new Oberon like happy children with ice cream cones...
...Oberon's plot: to regain his wife, Oberon, King of the Elves, scours the earth to find a faithful couple. He finds a brave knight and his beloved who are shipwrecked escaping from Bagdad; she is captured by pirates, pursued by a sultan, rescued by her knight, and finally blessed by Charlemagne. Oberon, of course, turns up at every crucial moment to rescue his charges...
...Hollywood, Cinemactress Merle Oberon, 42, a British subject born in Tasmania and educated in India and France, announced that she was going to become a U.S. citizen and join "Mr. Eisenhower's party...
...were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded the boarded-over statue of Eros to ward off the drunks who always want to climb it on such occasions. At the Savoy, a gilded party of 2,000 (including Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Merle Oberon and Sharman Douglas) joined Press Lord Viscount Camrose of the Daily Telegraph to sip champagne and watch a private bulletin board...
...current impression that the diaper service takes complete charge of children until they are toilet trained, and the television set takes over from there on in." Since she obviously has nothing to do, Groggle feels that his wife should pack the combined sex appeal "of Lana Turner, Merle Oberon, his mother in a tinted tintype at eighteen, the latest magazine cover girl, and Miss Rheingold...