Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken from a radio broadcast) of the Met's Tenor Frederick Jagel singing a Tosca aria. Impressed, Hayes took Mario on. Later, when Lanza could sing the aria himself, Hayes marveled: "You're even better than you were on the record!" Ever since, not content with this version of the story, Lanza has insisted that the record was really a Caruso...
Disney's $3,900,000 Technicolored version draws on both Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, skips many of Alice's adventures, reshuffles others and caricatures most of its cast of 31 Carroll characters until they look more like Disney creations than the original Sir John Tenniel drawings that inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock...
...answered in a later lecture. But painless as this program of home education may seem, the finest TV receiver on the market will not eliminate the last big hurdle. Living-room collegians will have to make at least one trip to the campus to struggle through the standard classroom version of a final exam, with no coaching from audience...
...rang out loud, clear and in English in the Rockies. The scene: the 73-year-old stone opera house in Central City, Colo., nugget-size (pop. 706) old mining town 40 miles west of Denver. The musical bill consisted of a pair of breezily staged one-acters: an English version of The Beautiful Galatea, by 19th Century Franz von ŚSuppeé, and Amelia Goes to the Ball, by today's Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti...
...Lady (MGM) is the third movie version of The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Frederick Lonsdale's 1925 stage comedy of larceny in the drawing room. Inspired by the time-tested Hollywood axiom, "if at first you succeed, try, try again," the latest cinemadaptation comes off well enough to suggest that even now movie-goers may not be seeing the last of Mrs. Cheyney...