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...fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying, a lady stays elegant"). As for Puccini's music, Director Aoyama still feels it is out of character-Puccini...
...dinosaur egg is about twice the size of a big ostrich egg, according to William M. Pinkerton, Director of the University News Office. Ostrich eggs are usually about 5 1/2 inches in diameter and 7 inches in length...
...brand-new Santa Fe Opera Association had selected a surefire heart-throbber-Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The 32-piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts off the hills threatened...
Barry Bingham, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal; Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald; and John M. Harrison, editorial writer on the Toledo Blade, will serve on the Selecting Committee for Nieman Fellowships for 1957-58, the university announced. William M. Pinkerton, director of the Harvard News Office and Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, are the other members of the committee...
After dinner in the Houses they will hear addresses by Victor O. Jones '28, managing editor of the Boston Globe, William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Office, and John U. Monro '34, director of Financial Aid. Then they will watch Saturday's CRIMSON go to bed, and spend the night in the Houses or at Radcliffe...