Word: sunlit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post, recently came away from Ashland pro claiming her "the finest young undiscovered actress in America...
...sunlit silence...
...huge Hercules aircraft took off from Quonset Point, R.I., and reached the U.S. staging base at Christchurch, New Zealand, the following day. Flights from Christchurch to McMurdo have been made with almost monoto nous regularity for the past eight years -but only in the sunlit months from December to March. During April the light shrinks to a thin orange streamer and then flickers out, to be succeeded by continuous night and a winter season of swift blizzards and howling gales with temperatures as low as -127° F. Not until August does the sun return...
...PURITANI (3 LPs; London) is the last and loveliest of Bellini's operas, a story about the Roundheads and the Stuarts in the days of Cromwell incongruously drenched in Italian melody and sunlit harmony. Only singers skilled in bel canto, such as Joan Sutherland and Maria Callas, dare try it. In the new recording, Sutherland is the demented Elvira, and when she sings Vien, diletto in a deluge of perfectly matched and sparkling runs and trills, she embellishes even the embellishments. Maria Callas (on Angel's earlier version of I Puritani) has no such quicksilver in her voice...
...pictured it as hot and waterless, certainly not a place for any kind of life that is known on earth. But last week Venus got a kind word. Professor John Strong of Johns Hopkins University reported that the Venusian atmosphere has a large amount of water vapor above its sunlit cloud deck...