Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of filming a horse opera, 20th Century-Fox was forced to call in a paleface archery expert named Abel Lewis to teach 35 Indians how to use bows & arrows...
Barber of Seville (Sat. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Film of the Rossini opera, starring Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...Glyndebourne Opera's Rudolf Bing was relaxing in his Manhattan hotel room before returning to London. He had just finished a business errand for Britain's crack opera company; Glyndebourne's U.S. debut at Princeton, N.J. had been set for autumn 1950, and Bing was well satisfied. Then his phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen...
Fair Shake? Last week, in London, Rudolf Bing thought over his new job of running the world's greatest opera house-an institution which went $233,000 into the red in 1947-48, and almost failed to open last season at all, until its unionized workers unwillingly agreed to pass up raises. In his forthright way, Bing had lots of confidence. The job had "just blown up suddenly," he said, but it apparently was not too much of a surprise: "For 15 years, I have known that some day I would reach that goal...
That rocked the campus. Cried the undergraduate Michigan Daily: "The atmosphere of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera mixed with Keystone cops . . ." The Daily wanted the dry law repealed...