Word: ris
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describes as "a beautiful woman of 32 . . . with Viennese grace and lightness," who has "one wet eye" from the loss of her young lover Octavian "and one dry" with sophistication, pretty Soprano Eleanor Steber could not quite make up in tenderness and charm what she lacked in opulence. Contralto Risë Stevens' attractive singing as Octavian was marred only by her unattractive grimacing. Even so, with Veteran Bass Eugene List as Baron Ochs, and with the help of two new imports, Dresden's Coloratura Erna Berger as a pert, brilliant Sophie, and Vienna's Buffo-Tenor Peter...
...flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong man, and Risë Stevens as a self-conscious seductress, the opera never got out of low gear. But in this case it was almost wholly the fault of Composer Saint-Saëns: his slow-moving Samson and Delilah is more often oratorio than opera...
Pole vault--Won by Sherman (RIS); 2, Lawrence (H); 3, Lockett (H). Height...
Broad jump--Won by Benesh (RIS); 2, Sherman (RIS); 3, Stallman (RIS). Distance...
Javelin--Won by Keith (H); 2, Onoyan (RIS); 3, Holbrook (H). Distance...