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Robert Drew culled one hour from the staggering total of 55 he had shot, managed to catch the frantic, discombobulated rehearsals of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra; the suave calm of Met General Manager Rudolf Bing; the comic pathos of Soprano Leontyne Price as she got trapped in a prop pyramid before 3,800 people at dress rehearsal; the triumph of opening night, and the quietly joyous reunion of Price with her parents backstage afterward, in which she told her father that there was champagne in the icebox and please to leave her some. The camera even...
...pudgy, middle-aged chap (Rudolf Hrušinski) who works as an inspector for a chain of grocery stores and looks like a small grey pig wearing spectacles. Humiliated by his appearance, he assumes a mask of in difference that puts off the people he works with and drives his wife (Ann Todd) to drink. Inevitably, the morbid love-hate of women that is hidden in the inspector's heart bursts out in an ambiguous compulsion to punish and to prowl...
...paper also threw a charity gala at the Paris Opera that glittered with the helmets of the Gardes Republicaines, and the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. It was all quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A documentary of the frantic weeks of preparation for the opening of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House and the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra. With Met General Manager Rudolf Bing, Leontyne Price, Thomas Schippers and Franco Zeffirelli...
...obscure German nobleman named Rudolf of Habsburg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1273 when an assemblage at Aachen shouted "Fiat...