Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tackling Faust, Bing and Tudor had reversed a 31-year Met precedent. In 1919, principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
...enacted, is no worse, but no better, than blancmange. Composer Britten has turned out a pleasant score, full of tricky tunes and comic-opera ensembles. But the relentless whimsicality makes A. A. Milne seem downright dour; and the hippety-hoppeting would cause growls and mutters in any mildly progressive fourth grade...
Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight...
Only three new musicals have managed to make their Broadway goals. A fourth, Out of this World, opens Thursday, after an extended stay in Boston. Bless You All, another probable hit, opens the same...
...confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent. Yet some were important for the record and others still generated excitement. Easily the most exciting and important were Winston Churchill's third and fourth volumes of his great history of the war, The Grand Alliance and The Hinge of Fate. Together with his amiable Painting as a Pastime and a book of speeches, Europe Unite, they established Churchill as one of the busiest writers of the year as well...