Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, the Met's Rudolf Bing got lavish, handsome but unimaginative new sets from the hands of Scene Designer Rolf Gerard, hired a top Broadway director, Jose (Long Day's Journey into Night) Quintero. Although he had never done an opera before, and had seen only half a dozen in his life, Director Quintero somehow managed to absorb most of the stagy, stiff-kneed mannerisms of traditional opera productions. Nevertheless, particularly in Pagliacci, he added some truly exciting touches: Nedda, starting her first-act aria reclining voluptuously on the steps leading to the open...
...wisecracking marine picks up a jangling field telephone. "Good morning," he says cheerily. "This is World War II." He couldn't be more mistaken. This is World War II as it seems, 13 years after the bloody fact, to a corps of Hollywood professionals who have unquestionably seen more scenes of combat in movie houses than in any actual theater of war. The big push in this picture, even though it is carefully filled out with official military footage, smells unmistakably of the klieg lamp, and the episodes on the home front, for all the respect they show...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish politician...
...Dinah Shore Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Sid Caesar fans must be fast afoot and nimble in the dialing finger if they are to catch him these days, but he can be seen briefly here. Color...
This was Finney's third touchdown (he passed for his team's other one) and this climaxed one of the most brilliant quarterbacking performances ever seen in the Stadium. For despite the Crimson's third quarter heroics, the first half was all Brown's and in effect all Finney...