Word: regina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to go to far-off Saudi Arabia to find Geigers chasing oil pipeline "pigs" [TIME, Nov. 20]. Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. have had the same done for them on the 500-mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...
...season whose musicomedies were resolutely undistinguished, musical drama -the one new form to establish itself on Broadway-strengthened its hold. Gian-Carlo Menotti's smash hit The Consul (along with The Cocktail Party] had every cocktail party in Manhattan buzzing. Marc Blitzstein's Regina died at the boxoffice, but it was very much alive on the stage...
...Critic Brooks Atkinson and others noted) a glaring lack of creativeness. Broadway swam with revivals (Shakespeare, Shaw, Strindberg Peter Pan), with books made into plays (The Member of the Wedding, The Innocents, The Happy Time, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep) with plays and books made into musicals (Regina, Lost in the Stars, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'). Making its chairs out of sofas rather than building them outright, Broadway still scorned the idea that the play's the thing and whooped up the production...
...Metropolitan Opera office around noon one day last week was a little upsetting: Soprano Polyna Stoska was ill, would not be able to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure that night. Even though she had not sung it for four years, and never at the Met, blonde Regina Resnik was told that she would have to come down from her rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able...
Almost as big a surprise was 27-year-old Bronx-born opera-saver Regina Resnik (TIME, Aug. 25, 1947), whose dramatically convincing and vocally sumptuous Sieglinde was more than a match for 59-year-old veteran Tenor Lauritz Melchior's Siegmund...