Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eulogy of George Bernard Shaw, then a passage from Euripides, finally a leisurely talk with Guest Pamela Brown (the leading woman of Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning) about a ghost in London's Drury Lane Theater. With these ingredients, and a background of German lieder played on a guitar, Actress Lilli Palmer (currently starring with husband Rex Harrison in Broadway's Bell, Book and Candle) last week began a new TV show over Manhattan's station WCBS-TV (Thurs...
...joining the bevy of women who are gradually taking over television by night as well as by day, German-born Lilli Palmer, 29, broke most of the rules laid down by TV's other success girls. Vivacious, pun-popping Arlene Francis, with her Blind Date, exploits the callow conversations of college boys and tittering models. Plump, pretty Eloise McElhone employs the standard feminine TV equipment of an indefatigable smile, a capacity for continual astonishment ("Is that so?" "You don't say!"), and the ability to talk endlessly about nothing. Willowy, fashion-plated Maggi McNellis, with Leave...
Amidst loud cries of wounded pride and outrage, the new manager proceeded to drop 39 singers, including hitherto sacrosanct Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, 60, whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since...
...Take Me." Invited to join a bigger agency, Bing went to Berlin on his 25th birthday. There he had to supply artists for some 80 German opera houses-"75 of which were terrible...
...Gutman, 48, who in the old days used to drop into the Darmstadt theater as music critic for the Berlin Börsen-Courier. Rudolf, then a conductor, recalls Bing and wife Nina as "a handsome couple," Bing himself as "a man I liked to talk to." Says another German critic who knew him well at Darmstadt: "He was clearly destined to have a great future...