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...part of Lady Macbeth, which was to have been sung by Maria Callas before Rudolf Bing fired her (TIME, Nov. 17), went to radiant Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek, who in her Met debut showed off an unusually pure and beautifully rounded voice and considerable acting talent. Her only fault was that she scarcely fitted Verdi's bill ("I would have Lady Macbeth ugly and wicked ... her voice should be that of a devil"). For the most part, Soprano Rysanek seemed more like an ambitious Org Man's tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband...
...ballet. Rashomon is rich in theater craft-Jo Mielziner's doom-dappled lighting, Laurence Rosenthal's eerily instrumented score, Oliver Messel's turntable forest of disenchantment. Apart from a U.N.-like babel of accents, the brilliant cast often achieves a triumph of mime over matter. Radiant, in white kimono, as netted moonlight, Claire Bloom is part lotus flower, part flower of evil. Noel Willman's samurai is a bred-in-the-bone aristocrat, and Rod Steiger's bandit a bite-to-the-bone outlaw...
...marriage would be "impossible." Epoca cried: "Let's forget state complications. He is a sad and tired man, 20 years older than she. He lives in a dull and distant capital, on the edge of a backward and savage world. His court is oriental, his country uncivilized. Radiant Gabriella needs youth, sunshine and laughter. And then, how could a princess of Savoy, whose title goes back a thousand years, marry a man whose dynasty began in 1930?* Could she end up in the squalor of Teheran?" A Vatican source said: "In the eyes of the church, the Shah...
...State of Grace M. Duperrier, a good Christian in the prime of life, is crowned with a radiant halo "which looked as though it might have been cut out of fairly stiff cardboard." His wife is socially embarrassed, for "she thought it more important to be esteemed by her concierge than by her Creator." A dutiful husband, Duperrier cultivates the seven deadly sins in the hope of losing the halo. Matters reach a hilariously poignant pitch when Duperrier blushingly prepares for lust by reading the latest sex manuals aloud. At story's end, he is a prostitute...
...make sure his men have the tools, he pays out at most 15% of profits in dividends, pours 85% into the company to expand research and development. Last year he spent $3,700,000 for a new advanced research lab that includes a 12.5 million-watt radiant heating unit to simulate the fantastic heats of atmospheric reentry. This spring a new $5,137,000 wind tunnel will be finished to help solve the problems of flight at speeds up to 4,000 m.p.h., temperatures from -65° F. to 660° F. and altitudes up to 125,000 ft. McDonnell...