Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catalonia-born Maestro Casals, who detests Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco so heartily that he will not play in Spain, moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 from his longtime home in self-exile in the French Pyrenean town of Prades. He played last April at the yearly Festival Casals in San Juan, is now in Prades for a reprise of the festivals he used to hold there. *A Reuters correspondent once needled Munoz with the question: "Yes, but when will Puerto Rico get economic freedom from the U.S.?" Shot back Munoz: "About the same time Britain does...
...monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. I saw my first lion and tiger in the Central Park Zoo. I used to play ball in Times Square with my brother. Every 15 minutes or so we'd stop as the horse cars clanged...
...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...
...wonderfully full and natural, and for that and for all the picture's graces of execution, credit is due to Director Daniel (Come Back, Little Sheba) Mann. But the leading virtue of this film derives from James Poe's screenplay, and ultimately from Lonnie Coleman's play, from which it was adapted. That virtue is maturity of feeling - the rare ability to take people as they are and life as it comes...
...wife Nevarte, son Nubar and daughter Rita. At 8 a.m.. Papa Gulbenkian arranged a series of staggered telephone calls so he could keep tabs on their whereabouts throughout the day. The entire family had to beg him for money with Oriental humility. He once snorted during a murder play, "Ridiculous! In my house the purchase of the poison would be noticed at once in the household accounts...