Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steber's test came in a concert-version revival of Richard Strauss's fairy-tale opera, Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), and in a soprano role which Vienna's beloved Maria Jeritza introduced to the Viennese in 1919. The story: an emperor on a hunt sees a white gazelle, and when he throws his spear at her, she turns into a woman. The emperor takes her home and makes her his wife. But the new empress does not cast a shadow, and, uneasily, the emperor realizes that his bewitching wife is not really...
...Commandments (Cecil B. De-Mille, who made one version...
Danny Kaye Entertains (Columbia LP). In addition to a soft and sweet version of the Irish ballad Molly Malone, Kaye sings six songs from the 1941 Broadway hit, Lady in the Dark, among them The Princess of Pure Delight, Jenny, Tchaikovsky. The last is Comic Kaye at his best, as he rattles off the jawbreaking names of four dozen Russian composers without fluffing...
BRITAIN'S A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. is ready to build the Avro "Atlantic," world's first delta-wing airliner. A commercial version of the Vulcan four-jet bomber now in production, the 600-m.p.h. Atlantic would carry 90 to 115 passengers (sitting backward for greater safety in case of a crash). Estimated elapsed time from London to New York: 6½ hours nonstop. With production contracts, Avro promises delivery...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...