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...opera was proclaimed. To many, the most recent "end" came with Richard Strauss, who died in 1949. When Alban Berg's magnificent Wozzek was first performed in 1925, some people covered their ears in horror; today it is widely accepted as an almost mellow classic. Julius Rudel, director of Manhattan's enterprising New York City Opera, receives and reads 50 new opera scores a year. All kinds of opera will still be written, even in an age which seems to many sadly unoperatic-perhaps about Marilyn Monroe, or about Cassius Clay, or the astronauts, or even James Bond...
Prokofiev's score, ably conducted by Julius Rudel, is appropriately dissonant and heavily percussive. Soprano Schauler, whose surmounting of Prokofiev's vocal obstacle course was achievement enough, proved a splendid actress as well. But then, as one who admits to powers of ESP, she was a natural for the role. As for seeing flaming angels, she says she took lessons from her five-year-old son, Jeffrey, who had an invisible playmate named Timothy...
Then with the appearance of the motto on the back of bills came a new series: Series 1957, also with the signatures of Priest and Anderson. When the Kennedy Administration came to office the change of personnel was recorded as Series 1957A which showed Elizabeth Rudel Smith as Treasurer of the United States and C. Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury...
Next signature on the lower left-hand corner of U.S. greenbacks: the tight script of Kathryn E. Granahan, a Pennsylvania Congresswoman who will replace Elizabeth Rudel Smith in the $17,000-a-year post as Treasurer...
Issues and Answers (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "The Ladies of the New Frontier" introduces U.S. Treasurer Elizabeth Rudel Smith, Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger and Washington Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen...