Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard will dust off another one of those pre-war events that made for the reputation of gracious living in the College community when the Lowell House Opera Society unveils its first production in seven years this evening...
After 2½ spicy months in the tabloids, Ferruccio Tagliavini, 35, robustious Metropolitan Opera tenor, was adjudged, by a 2-1 decision, the father of a 17-month-old girl, whose mother is an enthusiastic brunette music lover named Mary Phillips, 28. The court ordered Tagliavini to pay $25 a week for the baby's support. The outraged tenor, for almost eight years married to bouncy Met Soprano Pia Tassinari, denied everything and announced that he would appeal. Said Miss Phillips: "I'm so happy for baby . . . She needs new shoes." But the trial had taught her bitterness...
...delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with fine abandon...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Strauss's Salome...
...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...