Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Excerpts from Menotti's new opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Yellow Jack, with Broderick Crawford, Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Massey, Wally Cox, Eva Marie Saint, E. G. Marshall...
...librettist, Menotti sets the scene in New York's Little Italy, and superimposes the sometimes gay, sometimes squalid American lives of its citizens on their Old World traditions. This time, the conflict between faith and reason is personified by Annina, the young and sickly "saint" who has visions of the Crucifixion and shows the holy stigmata on Good Fridays, and her rebellious brother Michele, who thinks religion is fanaticism. Annina yearns to become a nun, but Michele thinks her visions are delusions and tries to prevent her from taking the veil...
Married. Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, tiny, cat-quick ballerina and musi-comedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights); and Roland Petit, 30, founder and director of France's famed Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred; in Saint-Cyr-la-Rivière, France...
...third generation has lost the lust for power but kept the impulse toward God. Young Haguenier, Herbert's son, is a moonstruck knight who has chosen to serve a frigid beauty and waits in vain for her to thaw. It is hard to believe that any man, saint or fool, would observe the for mal demands of chivalry and obey each of his lady's whims (such as entering a joust in which his only shield is a mirror that must not be damaged). But Haguenier fulfills all his "trials" until he is driven to drink and finally...