Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maggie had put on her Faust with a lot of confidence. One old friend, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, told her, "You have put the pearls on a string." Most listeners found that they enjoyed the old pearls from Gounod's score more than they appreciated the new string-Poet Spender's often banal narration. But everyone agreed it was a bang-up show. Producer Maggie, who at 61 vows each year of singing on the concert stage will be her last, was happily thinking about taking her Faust on tour...
...Mexico City's swank Colonia Nápoles one evening last week, a string of expensive cars were parked outside Señora Rosa Rodriguez' mansion. Inside, a score of well-heeled, guests were gathered around card tables, sipping drinks and wagering 100-peso notes at canasta, poker and baccarat...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was househunting around Dutchess County, N.Y. for himself and bride-to-be Suzanne Perrin, a New York socialite and exMarine. Franklin Jr.'s new marriage will raise the wedlock score to ten for the five children of the late President (see MILESTONES...
...Fidelio, the company had an unquestionably great voice, that of Guest Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and Conductor Furtwngler gave a masterly reading of the score that won him a ten-minute personal ovation...
This week visitors to Washington's National Gallery were seeing South Africa as it looked to 53 of the Dominion's own painters and sculptors. For historical background there were a score of 18th and 19th Century canvases which showed glimpses of South Africa's colonial past. But most of the work was by contemporaries and reflected present-day Africa-its raw, green hills, adobe towns and sprouting cities...