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Last year, after the dining hall began to sell meals either singly or by the week, the annual deficit increased from $14,000 to $57,000. According to Carle T. Tucker, director of the University Dining Halls, the food service was hired to run Harkness because Stouffer's is "particularly adapted" to this method of selling meals...
...Richard Tucker, the Metropolitan Opera's great tenor, marched to the front of the stage, fixed his audience with a sour look, and let forth a flood of sound...
...production was fitted out with a new English translation by Ann Ronell, who angrily asked that her name be dropped from the program after the Met cut various changes she had made in the original libretto. The performances-by Victoria de los Angeles, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi and Tucker-were generally first-rate. But to modern ears, Martha's music seems hopelessly dated and sickeningly sweet. The heroine was probably echoing more of her listeners than she knew when she warbled...
...grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland-and full of family bluntness. And in Show Girl's freshest idea for a skit, Miss Channing and Munshin play the Lunts fussing like two Hausfrauen over the theater named after them...
...time Gorria-Boito sets things right, four acts and nearly that number of hours have elapsed. But La Gioconda is a singers' opera, and it gives the principals some rousing tunes, including Enzo's great second-act aria, Cielo e mar, superbly rendered last week by Tenor Tucker...