Word: olio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most prolific composers in the recent history of opera was British-born (of French descent) Piano Virtuoso Eugène d'Albert. In a career otherwise occupied with six marriages, teaching and lucrative concert tours, he managed to compose 20 musical melodramas, ending with a preposterous oriental olio called Mr. Wu that he left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life...
George M. Kurzon '52, president of Ivy Films, announced yesterday that the motion picture was contracted last September, before the world premier, to the Olio-Video Corporation for distribution. Kurzon stated that he had received word that "A Touch of the Times" will have a two-fold opening sometime in October at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse and the Fifty-fifth Avenue Playhouse and the Fifty-fifth Street Playhouse in New York...
...Olio-Video is also a distributor of television films, and Kurzon stated that he thought it quite likely that the picture will eventually reach the home TV audience...