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...Figaro has been done a record 114 times), but the house has also presented a good share of the Italian repertory plus the premieres of such contemporary works as Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring and Rape of Lucretia and the first English productions of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. The country opera gets along on box office and private contributions. Says Christie: "We would not take a state subsidy if offered it." The uniquely local flavor that Glyndebourne still retains is reflected in the remark made...
violations of the antitrust laws" as an automaker. What's more, added RCA darkly, if Philco proposed to examine "ancient history," RCA would do likewise-a clear hint that RCA was ready to rake up memories of some of old Henry Ford's highhanded tactics in the 1930s...
...Chips Janger, as Jack Snow, a rake who joins the Corps for his own reasons, is smooth talking and a graceful dancer. (The rest of the acting and singing ranges from undistinguished to lousy...
...PRODIGAL RAKE-MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY (452 pp.)-edited by Peter Quennell-Dutton...
...recall the description of the Man with the Muckrake, the man who could look no way but downward, with a muckrake in his hands; who was offered a celestial crown for his muckrake, but who would neither look up nor regard the crown that was offered, but continued to rake to himself the filth of the floor." Such a man typified these new writers, Roosevelt said, excepting Steffens and Tarbell because of their great scholarship...