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...shame to spend so much time for just one 1½-hour show." Said Edith (Daisy Mae) Adams, the Fairy Godmother: "Why, Ed Sullivan has just one full rehearsal and you NEVER know-where you are." She twirled a baton-"Gotta get in shape with my magic wand" -then skipped off to sing her one number, Impossible ("for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage...
...whisk of the author's wand puts plain John ill at ease in the count's clothes and drawing room, half wanting and half dreading to be discovered as an impostor. The simplest acts are tense puzzlers, like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years...
...virtually the same visual improbabilities that burdened it in the past. Ponderous gods and goddesses lumbered clumsily toward one another across the gigantic stage. Papier-mâché dragons belched steam, dwarfs disappeared in clouds of vapor, magic fires raced across the sky at the wave of a wand. For reasons of economy, the Met made no effort to replace the worn sets originally designed and constructed for the Ring nearly a decade ago. A complete restaging, estimates Manager Bing, would cost a prohibitive $300,000. Though he refuses to go to Bayreuth because of its Nazi associations, Bing...
Into a highceilinged, cream-colored room in Washington's Hotel Sheraton-Carlton one night last week crowded television technicians with bulky equipment and wand mikes. Sixteen reporters, recruited at $125 a head, were ready to help TV Producer Martha Rountree launch her new NBC program, Press Conference. The object of all attention: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., invited by Moderator Rountree (at no cash fee: he got a 20-volume, leather-bound encyclopedia instead) to be the first of a series of key figures to be interviewed. There was a gimmick: Brownell was expected to make an important...
Unhappy at Mendes' remarks, the other leading candidates unhappily had little else to offer. Growled Algeria's Governor General Jacques Soustelle, whom Mendes, as Premier, had appointed: "No magic wand can settle the problem at one stroke." Lacking a magic wand, politicians groped for a magic word. To lameduck Premier Edgar Faure, that word was integration, which lies somewhere between assimilation, now abandoned as an impractical dream, and federation, which implies wholesale remodeling of the French Union. To Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, federalism was the magic word: it would bring "solidarity within diversity...