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...these days. But how many western fans or foes are aware of what goes on behind the scenes? Of horses that make more money than people, of the Hollywood horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas of horse opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little...
...Prima Donnas. TV's Gunsmoke, originally a radio show, carried the revolution a step further. Gifted, Colorado-born Scriptwriter John Meston took pains to place the psychological realism in a setting of regional realism. When the show hit hard, a hasty passel of horse operators tried to follow his lead, but soon got lost in the chaparral cliches. Almost two years passed before a few of the more carefully written shows (Rawhide, Rifleman) began to get trailwise...
Born. To Maria Tallchief, 33, prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet company, Oklahoma-born daughter of an Osage Indian, onetime wife (No. 4) of Choreographer George Balanchine, and Chicago Construction Executive Henry ("Buzz") Paschen Jr., 32, her third husband: a daughter, their first child (he has another daughter by an earlier marriage); in Chicago. Name: Elise...
...production, offered by the Harvard Opera Guild Workshop, is spirited and competent, even if the singers cannot quite cope with every difficulty in the score. Linnet Houle and Vivian Thomas, as the two rival prima donnas, are supported by John Leonard, Robert Scher and Thomas Glick, with string orchestra and piano. This afternoon's free repeat performance will provide you with a delightful forty-five minute interlude...
...appointing in embattled Berlin a young cardinal renowned for his anti-Communism (see below), 3) honored Milan's popular Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini by placing his name at the head of the official list of new cardinals, giving him the unofficial title of the new Pope's prima creatura...