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...Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, a Mozart specialist, led the orchestra correctly, but without paprika. Apart from Mezzo Regina Resnik, fine as an old fortuneteller, the only really convincing member of the cast was Walter Slezak, making his Met debut as the pig farmer, Szupán. The son of famed Tenor Leo Slezak, 57-year-old Actor Slezak had wanted to stand on the stage of the Met for as long as he could remember, was delighted when he got his father's old dressing room...
...musical performance itself, as everybody agreed, was first-rate. Guided by Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, Principals Lisa Delia Casa, Cesare Siepi, Mildred Miller and Regina Resnik sang with the security and style that comes from long experience. Of the two singers making their debut, Finnish Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with...
Time Order. In San Francisco, the Call Bulletin-on a bad day for the erring society page-noted the engagement of Regina Maxine Cornblum and Herbert William Handy, said "an April wedding is planned after their honeymoon...
Died. Laurence Housman, 93, English playwright (Victoria Regina), novelist, brother of the late Poet A.E. (A Shropshire Lad) Housman, pacifist, pre-World War I woman-suffragist, satirist (The Life of H.R.H., the Duke of Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded...
During Christmas week. Pope John XXIII kept up his no-nonsense disrespect for hoary papal traditions, left the Vatican to beam his gentle pastoral smile on those who perhaps needed it most-invalid children in a Rome hospital, convicts at the grim Regina Coeli prison, where one inmate asked his help in getting an amnesty from the government. "I'm afraid that's out of my competency," replied the Pope. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty." Then he added: "But I have some influence...