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...vision is still 20-20. He reads all the Ohio Sunday papers and the political columnists, keeps track of men who are up & coming, and takes pains to meet new personalities and spread his own name around. He is not one to dull the 24-carat political sheen of his own background-the son of poor Italian immigrants who made something of himself. And he is not bashful about draping that fact with the Stars & Stripes. Yet there is nothing manufactured or insincere about Mike Di Salle's feeling for his country-it is one of the few things...
...some ways, Athos Menaboni is a better bird painter than was the great John James Audubon. He lacks Audubon's infallibly dramatic sense of composition and of action, but Menaboni is even more accurate about details and he comes closer to approximating the faintly metallic sheen of plumage in paint. So it is no wonder that Menaboni's Birds (Rinehart; $10) has become one of the season's most successful art books, selling out its first 25,000-copy printing before publication...
...gala white-tie first-night audience let her-and the Met's whole new directorate-know that they had traveled a long way toward that goal. The first-nighters saw & heard a Don Carlo that glowed with the high sheen of months of work and polish. Stunningly if starkly scened in grey and glowingly costumed in El Greco reds, it was beautifully sung, cleanly staged and intelligently acted...
...High Sheen. For once, everybody agreed with the Russians. In five years of rebuilding, chiefly under Conductor Josef Krips (who was barred from the U.S. last summer-TIME, July 31), Vienna's State Opera had made a triumphant comeback...
...houses: major productions in the Theater an der Wien, lighter works such as The Gypsy Baron at the Volksoper in the U.S. zone. A good part of the company puts in an additional five weeks at the Salzburg Festival. Such continuous performing is one good reason for the high sheen of the company's ensemble...