Word: ris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spectaculars. In addition, he must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That meant he had to create about 100 individual designs and fit about 600 costumes for the show. He also had to keep in mind that he was working for both color and black and white (if he uses the wrong shade, the heroine's face might...
...opera stars get invited to sing at Milan's La Scala, but last week Risë Stevens became the first ever to create a new role in the proud old house...
...performance of Samson and Delilah in Miami, Soprano Risë Stevens' breathtaking Delilah prompted enthusiastic operagoers to rush to the lobby during intermission and rack up a new house record for the sale of binoculars...
...long time to learn that free love is more expensive than any other kind") or setting readers straight on Nietzsche ("No great writer ever wrote more nonsense . . and his penalty has been that the nonsense alone is quoted, while his valuable insights have been quite overlooked"). When Har ris objected to "mass-produced" college teaching, eight university presidents answered him. A year and a half ago, when the News asked its readers how they liked Harris, more than 2,000 letters poured in in a few days, with verdicts ranging from "He's a conceited ass" to "Keep...
...audiences took the whole experiment in better part. They admired the well-timed camera work and the sense of almost being on the stage. In the closeups, they saw Singers Risë Stevens and Richard Tucker in more detail than any spectators at the Met were seeing them. In general, they seemed to share the illusion of the opera house, and burst into applause after the arias. Most of them forgave first-try mistakes...