Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Rudolf Bing set out last spring to improve the "visual aspects" of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the first eyesores he operated on was the Met's stumbling opera ballet. Since dancing appears in some of the most popular operas in the standard repertory, e.g., Carmen, Tannhäuser, Traviata, La Gioconda, Bing aimed to get the Met variety considerably higher on its toes. He handed the responsibility to Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre; Lucia, in turn, delegated the job to her principal choreographer, greying, London-born Antony (Pillar of Fire) Tudor...
...popular singers of 1949 held their own in 1950. Last week, with returns in from their annual jazz-fan polls, both Down Beat and Metronome found that rubber-throated Billy Eckstine and sultry-voiced Sarah Vaughan again led all the rest...
...favorites, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Bionds and Kiss Me Kate are still around, now at almost popular prices. Bless You All with Jules Munshin, Pearl Bailey, Mary McCarty and Valerie Bettis is sure to be a hit with many of the Call Me Mister group included among its credits. Tickets may still be available at box office for some part of the vacation...
Cardinals & Crackups. The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
John Hersey scored one of the year's popular successes with The Wall, a fictional-documentary study of the extermination of Warsaw's Jews under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...