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Died. Rudolph Halley, 43, onetime (1950-51) horn-rimmed hawkshaw for Senator Estes Kefauver's much-televised Senate Crime Investigating Committee, who as chief counsel grilled Underworld-lings Mickey Cohen. Frank Costello, Virginia Hill and Frank Erickson, won the New York City Council presidency in 1951 as a Liberal Party candidate on the strength of his performance; of acute pancreatitis; in Manhattan...
...goes Orpheus in the Underworld, Jacques Offenbach's delightful spoof of Greek mythology, presented in English by the New York City Opera Company last week. The stylishly scant scenery (including a tricky, tilted revolving stage) is handsome; the staging is often funny; and the music is as charming as it was 100 years ago. Under the firm and concise direction of Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 44, who left the Rochester Philharmonic to become the City Center's new musical director, the brilliant score is beautifully played. The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined...
Another Generation. Alfred Kinsey, who lived in a comfortable house in Bloomington behind thick hedges of shrubbery and books, was a well-known figure in the academic world, equally well known in what he called the underworld of New York's Times Square, where he and his Ph.D. associates had conducted widespread interviews. Apart from a passion for hi-fi music, he was driven by a 16-hour-a-day dedication to his work. Said his wife once in a famous aside: "I hardly ever see him at night any more since he took...
...waters of the Bahamas and Florida's Marineland oceanarium and polished by three bright young Harvardmen (Lloyd Ritter, Robert Young and Murray Lerner). The product of a three-year effort and a paltry $150,000, it is one of the best films thus far of the brave new underworld of the skindiver, where the actors are all baresark and the dialogue is in bubbles...
...good thing going for them in a variety of rackets. At last, like many another tycoon in the full flush of success, they took to writing their memoirs. Announcing his retirement last year, Billy hired a ghostwriter and turned out a book called Boss of Britain's Underworld. Jack produced a rival series of articles for the Sunday Chronicle, describing in glowing terms his own rise to power. The Jack Spot memoirs hit their high point with the boast that he had mustered an army of 1,000 hoods armed with Sten guns, hand grenades, British service revolvers...