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...Engelbert Humperdinck Show (ABC) is an egregiously ordinary variety hour headlined by the British singer who got nowhere until he changed his name from Gerry Dorsey. He has a passable baritone and is now purportedly worth about $8,000,000. But why can't he hire some writers...
...ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK SHOW (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). This special serves as a preview for the Humperdinck series that will start on Jan. 21. Guests include Tom Jones, Barbara Eden, Dionne Warwick and Jose Feliciano...
...saints of charity. They show St. Martin of Tours cutting his cape on an icy night to share it with Jesus, appearing as a beggar (upper left); St. Severinus, who died near Salzburg, helping a woman out of prison during a Hun invasion (upper right); the execution of St. Engelbert Kolland (lower left); and St. Francis offering his cloak (lower right). In the center a sheaf of wheat and a cluster of vines, symbolizing the bread and wine of the Eucharist, serve as the door handles. Like Manzù's bronze cardinals and Christs, the doors are conceived...
Hansel and Gretel (Michael Myerberg) shows what the Machine Age can do to an old folk tale. Based on Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 children's opera, Hansel is a 72-minute Technicolor production built around a new gimmick: electronically controlled robots with hands, eyebrows, and bodies that move...
...week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...