Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening. In ratings, they have slaughtered everything from ABC's American Bandstand to CBS's Playhouse go. Their titles alone have been irresistible -"The Cold Woman," "The Glamour Trap," "The Trapped Housewife," "Change of Life." The program hires first-rate talent, too. such as Sylvia Sidney (menopause), Kim Hunter (frigidity) and Phyllis Thaxter (the trapped housewife-in real life, Thaxter is the wife of James Aubrey, president...
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...
...extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally (though not sexually) involved, the boy commits suicide. Deeply shocked, the lawyer resolves to break up the extortion racket, even if he has to risk his marriage (Sylvia Syms) and wreck his career...
Divorce & a Horse. Divorce was Giesler's other specialty. Married twice himself (he had two daughters and one son), he helped Barbara Hutton divest herself of Cary Grant, took the side of Lady Sylvia Ashley against Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe against Joe DiMaggio. In his most bizarre case, he defended the life of a horse named Tom Boy whose owner's will had decreed that the stallion should be destroyed to save him from mistreatment; and in perhaps his most celebrated case, he won an acquittal for Charlie Chaplin, charged with a violation of the Mann...
Ashton regards his treatment of Persephone as "my most complex work so far." and it proved to be a radical transformation from the gentle, classically oriented manner of such Ashton successes as Cinderella and Sylvia. The choreographic style was severe, angular and so stylized that it sometimes seemed Ashton had turned to ancient Greek friezes for his inspiration. The dancers in the corps de ballet frequently were presented in profile, in friezelike groupings; at other times, they marched flat-footed with hands on one another's shoulders, or with arms raised and palms held flat. The legendary quality...