Word: sopranoes
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...apeman yell. Speaking to a group of college students in Ontario, Onetime Swimming Champion Buster Crabbe admitted that his Tarzan cries in the movies had all been dubbed. So had those of another noted Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller. "The studio had a recording of three voices," Crabbe explained, "one a soprano, one a baritone and the third a hog caller, who all yelled together...
MATHER HOUSE DINING ROOM: Hunni Myers, soprano, Myron Press, piano, and William Lipscomb, clarinet present a recital of songs by Schubert, Faure. Falla and Moussorgsky...
...result, 5,000 Nights at the Opera (Doubleday; $10), is a good book that should have been better. Indulging in the perennial prerogative of the autobiographer, Bing opts mostly for one side of the story-his. He says nothing of his glaring failure to bring Soprano Beverly Sills to the Met, for example, but grows highly petulant because she and the New York City Opera scheduled Donizetti's Tudor trilogy (Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux) at the same time he was planning it at the Met for the Spanish prima donna Montserrat Caballé. "We finally accepted...
...Bald Soprano takes two very English couples--English past the point of stereotyping--through an evening together. It begins as Mr. and Mrs. Smith sit, apparently after dinner, while he reads the Times and she darns his socks. Then it appears that dinner guests are coming, and when the Martins arrive they try to establish to each other's satisfaction that they are married. Nothing really happens, and doubt is immediately cast upon any detail that threatens to become so concrete as to endanger the pervading air of unreality in the evening. The four people spend the rest of their...
Ionesco's Soprano is a small play that benefits from a small theatre; its intensely malicious approach would lose all its humor if played in a bigger setting, and Davis's production took advantage of the intimacy of the Ex. Like too many contemporary comedies-of-manners. The Bald Soprano, lacking any remarkable feats of inspiration appended by the director, would probably seem a little empty on any larger stage...