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Meanwhile, Osvaldo Ruggieri, who plays Jason, was having trouble with the pants designed for him by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. They were, he thought, too baggy. Whereupon he went out and got a pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket...
...have been that easy, but who cares? The annual 5100-a-ticket benefit party for the New York Shake speare Festival is usually Dullsville. Last week's affair was anything but - a fact that was signaled in advance by the peekaboo, fold-out invitations created by Stage Designer Rouben Ter-Aru-tunian, replacing the universally ordi nary engraved white cards. The rea son was that Amanda-darling, daughter of Mrs. William S. Paley, and Susan, bright offspring of MCA Founder Jules Stein, got a couple of dozen beautiful young people to show up at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel...
...Rouben Ter-Arutunian's settings help immensely in Gielgud's staging of group scenes. The first-act outdoor set uses the depth of the Shubert stage with four planes of trees, but keeps the acting area forward and close to the audience, opening the stage more than is the custom in the conventional Chekhov...
...influx of girls would "certainly cause a change in the intellectual life" of Harvard men, Rouben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, observed. He said he had gotten "more cold feet" after listening to this and other points raised at the committee meeting Wednesday. But he might accept one night of Harvard-Radcliffe interhouse a weak, he added...
...Verdi. Blood Moon tells the story of Ninette Lafont, a beautiful octoroon actress who flees New Orleans on the eve of the Civil War to forget her doomed love for Raymond Barlac, a Southern aristocrat. The wide-ranging plot, based on Dello Joio's own scenario, gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz-larded story. Only the heroine's quadroon mother, Cleo, superbly sung by Contralto Irene...