Word: reiner
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Wednesday, April 5 SID CAESAR, IMOGENE COCA, CARL REINER, HOWARD MORRIS SPECIAL (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Stars of the oldtimer "Your Show of Shows" come back to spoof rock 'n' roll groups, the Paris tourist and Italian opera. The Billy Williams Quartet comes with them...
...Karajan." More to the point, everybody knows that it is Bing who calls the tunes at the Met. Great conductors usually have egos to match, and the inevitable collision between Bing and the baton men caused such autocratic maestros as George Szell and the late Fritz Reiner to boycott the house...
...Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming." In an isolated old house on Gloucester Island, somewhere off the New England coast, an ordinary American comedy writer (Carl Reiner) is breakfasting with his wife (Eva Marie Saint), ignoring his young son, and dreaming of his return to ulcerization. Vacation is about over, but the excitement has just begun, for some dark and menacing creatures have emerged from the surf. Even as Reiner bolts his toast, one is wheezing, squeaking and sniffling around in the garage outside...
...What this country needs," Conductor Fritz Reiner once observed, "is more lousy string quartets." It is not for lack of trying. Indeed, the compulsion of amateur musicians to get together for an evening of chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes...
Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...