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Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
Wonderful Town (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Nearly two years on Broadway rate two hours on TV, and Rosalind Russell rates cheers as the heroine of this musical version of My Sister Eileen; with most of the original cast...
Garson, who subbed briefly for Rosalind Russell in the Manhattan version. Buckled back into the plane some 44 hours later, tireless Hostess Lillie was still crying for more ("I want to continue the party all night. To hell with Auntie Mame"), next day breathed plans for another weekend. New target: Rome...
...Angeles, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Antonietta Stella, Eleanor Steber, Sena Jurinac, Lisa Delia Casa, Irmgard Seefried, Leonie Rysanek, Risë Stevens. Backing them up is a promising and fast-rising crop of newer stars: Lucine Amara, Anna Moffo, Gloria Davy, Leontyne Price, Birgit Nilsson, Anita Cerquetti, Aase Nordmo-Lovberg, Rosalind Elias, Irene Dalis...
Auntie Mame, the cyclonic stage version of Novelist Patrick Dennis' bookful of lunacy, is playing San Francisco with brassy Eve Arden, Alabama and Tennessee with tiny but dynamic Sylvia Sidney, and Chicago with Constance Bennett, who is nearly as good as the original production's Rosalind Russell...