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...Mexico attracts many thousands of residents of Oklahoma but mostly they are people who come to the cool mountain regions to enjoy New Mexico's climate, hunting and fishing, and scenic areas. Many who first came as tourists have returned as permanent residents...
...inconvenient railroad schedules in New England and the South annoyed him no end, Barnstormer Wagner got a new idea for barnstorming tours. He decided to take opera to smaller U. S. cities by the busload. Picking Rossini's oldtime Barber of Seville as the most portable opera (two scenic sets, chorus optional) that he could think of, he chartered a big, shiny Greyhound-type bus, remodeled its roof to accommodate a ten-foot pile of scenery, and started signing up a busworthy crew of singers from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He called his new venture "Opera...
...because I could write poetry, a man by the name of Stever Woods-he was in charge of the scenic department-he would paint my sets without anybody knowing it, because he wanted me to write poetry about certain people that he went out and got drunk with. . . . This was in the early days when Otis Turner was the Cecil B. De Mille and Frank Lloyd was an actor with only one suit of clothes...
...Bennington, Vt. to attend the annual Bennington Festival, No. 1 U. S. summer dance event. Climax of the festival was a brand-new Graham ballet, Letter to the World, danced by 16 Grahamites. For it U. S. Composer Hunter Johnson had written a substantial, lengthy musical score; U. S. Scenic Designer Arch Lauterer had built an unprecedented stage load of secret panels, revolving doors and trick modernistic lighting effects. The ballet's subject: Poet Emily Dickinson, the New England spinster who never went out of her Amherst, Mass, house for 24 years, got all her excitement...
...retained 100 picturesque acres in the heart of Memphis-one half being virgin woods with massive oaks 250 years old. As additional compensation to us, the State and City built a scenic parkway through our tract 100 ft. wide, ¾ mile long, complete in every detail, costing them $175,000. So Old Tom didn't lose much of his family's inheritance by the tax litigations after...