Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elizabeth Theiller provided the high point of the evening with her performance of Things Are Getting Curiouser and Curiouser. Her "Requiem for a flattened banana" exhibited an excellent sense of humor and some charming interpretive dancing...
...would be hard for most viewers to understand why all the fuss about one bullfighter. As the show's Co-Scriptwriter Barnaby Conrad has often said before, Manolete was a slight man of grace, warmth and gentle humor outside the ring; but as played by Actor Jack (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Palance, he was awkward, humorless and uncommonly large in his baggy traje de luces. When Palance was not glooming about the bulls and that other, more ferocious enemy-the crowd-he was busy swilling expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this," he says...
...radio-TV public service. Special awards went to United Nations radio and TV for promoting international understanding and to Critic Jack Gould for "outstanding contribution, through his New York Times writings." For the first time the Peabody committee recognized TV writing as a category, gave the award to Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight] Serling...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9 :05 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducts Verdi's complete Requiem Mass...
...behind it a disheveled stagehand snoozed. Two workmen sipped tea on the set of the King and Queen's dressing room, while in the orchestra area the King and Queen (Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney) munched sandwiches. On the far corner of the stage, Director Ralph (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Nelson went to his knees and with his hands simulated a TV camera. "Come ahead on the stroke of one," he instructed Julie Andrews, cast as TV's Cinderella. "Now Cinderella heads right out of the camera...