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Whirling through Strauss's waltz-time score, the Met orchestra never sounded better. As Dr. Falke (Fledermaus), the source of the operetta's intrigues, suave Baritone John Brownlee sang and acted with aplomb. Dressed to the teeth in a scarlet and white uniform and waving an 18-in. cigarette holder, Mezzo Soprano Risë Stevens brought the house down in her entrance as the bored host, Prince Orlofsky...
Boredom Deferred. In Chicago, Mrs. Grandoline Yolanda Shalimar Pepper Scarlet Dellis explained why she fired four shots at her husband: "I'm an exotic dancer who's worked in every striptease joint in town ... I like an appreciative audience, and not even my husband can get away with falling asleep while I'm talking...
...Theater (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter...
Hilda Crane is such stuff as matinees are made of-one of those middle-class studies in scarlet chronicled from the first sleeping partner to the final sleeping pills. It expertly works the old Belasco formula of being realistic in all its details and stagy in all its essentials. Far from being convincing, it is not really specific: the characters are all preshrunk types colliding in pretested situations. But though often banal, the play is seldom boring...
...governor and treasurer of the New York Security Dealers Association.) Nevertheless, she feels at home in the telegraph business. "I was brought up on it," she says. "I learned the Morse code when I was eight; my father taught it to me. When my brother Charles* and I had scarlet fever we rigged up a line from room to room...