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...This opera is made for the audience," Tom Webber, a sophomore who plays Don Alfonso, Mozart's embodiment of deception, broke in. "If they're alert, they'll get it." Tom gets lots of chances to play directly to his audience while being deceptive, coming to the front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: Mozart and Chow Mein: A Day at the Opera | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

...evening really begins with the entrance of Joel Martin and John Webber...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Gondoliers | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...Webber's sweet tenor voice suits the usually many lyrics in Gondoliers; through he may not be quite up to the antics of his neighbors in Barataria, he makes their antics tolerable to listen to. If Martin is Lear the mad, Webber is Hamlet the brooding...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Gondoliers | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...North Borneo, June Jensby, 19, a Webber, Kans., 4-H girl, found that every long house in her bailiwick had a rusty Singer sewing machine, purchased years ago as a status symbol. But nobody knew how to work them. She scored a considerable local success by oiling the machines and giving sewing lessons. Since then, she has enlarged her curriculum to include lessons in playing volleyball, building latrines and making jam from bananas and brewing soup from cucumbers and eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peace Corps: It Is Almost As Good As Its Intentions | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid any further tinge of sentiment, persuaded Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis to underwrite the plan. Visiting Israel, he also persuaded Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and the socialist Labor government to make concessions to the fund, including below-market-value sale of government-held stocks and an option eventually to purchase $50 million in such securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A Place to Make Money | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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