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...curse upon Idomeneo was not easy to lift. Its setting is ancient Crete, where King Idomeneo and his gang are squirming under the rule of a choleric god. Stormbound at sea while returning from the Trojan War, Idomeneo has begged Neptune for deliverance. In return, he will sacrifice the first person he encounters on shore. Straining the long arm of coincidence, Idomeneo steps on land-and meets his son Idamante. Such subject matter is a problem for 20th century audiences, but not the only one. Idomeneo is written in the style of opera seria, the stilted, ritualistic 18th century Italian...
...Field. Miss Howard waited patiently for fulfillment of the imperial promises. Instead, one day the Emperor begged his "dear and faithful Harriet" to undertake a special embassy to England. Trustful Miss Howard got as far as Le Havre where, stormbound overnight, she opened a newspaper and read an official announcement of Louis' betrothal to Spain's Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba and sister-in-law of the Duke of Alba. Bounding furiously back to Paris, poor Miss Howard got a second blow. All the locks in her boudoir had been smashed, the contents...
Russel Crouse, half of the witty, successful playwriting-producing team of Lindsay & Crouse (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace), in Baltimore trying out a new show (The Hasty Heart), exploited his versatility by subbing for a stormbound bagpipe player, imitated the bagpipe's wheeze until the fellow showed...
...miserable what-nots," one of which attached itself to the Presidential line. Next day's was just as bad. The third day of the cruise, when the President's onetime law partner Basil O'Connor joined the party, there was no fishing at all. Stormbound and anchored off Block Island, the President resigned himself to a press conference. Fourth day, en route back to Hyde...
High over Quebec there soared last week for the first time in many years great flocks of fat, black & white seabirds, flying toward the St. Lawrence River basin and death. They were Arctic murres (also called guillemots), cousins of the little auks who were stormbound in Manhattan last month (TIME, Dec. 5). The cause of their periodic suicide flight is a mystery which Canadian ornithologists hope this year to solve...