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...other actors get rather little chance to be funny. Una Merkel, as Uncle Daniel's niece, does her best for a character whom the playwrights have left somewhat vague. As the bride, Sarah Marshall gives an appropriate, if at times almost infuriating, impression of bottomless stupidity. The part of the prosecutor, a politician with flowing hair and flowing oratory, offers Will Greer some opportunity for comedy. Unfortunately, he overplays...
...programs listed one old reliable after another (Brahms's Lullaby, Una furtiva lagrima from L'Elisir d'Amore, O Paradiso from L'Africana), but the cheering listeners evidently were in the mood for chestnuts. The music was just what Gigli always sang best, and he showed traces of his old vocal glory: a refined moment of color, a liquid pianissimo phrase, a ringing high note. More often, the voice was thin, unsteady, and unmistakably 65 years...
...Love (Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Tito Gobbi; Rome Opera chorus and orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini; Victor, 2 LPs). A 123-year-old take-off on the Tristan legend involving a desirable and wealthy wench, her two swains, a phony love potion and a welter of sunny tunes (including Una furtiva lagrima). A painless score, handsomely performed...
...soda (at $1.00 each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have...
...ignored in all their sordid and demented glory. But O'Connor merely comments, "He (the husband) as he really was, a man at war with his animal nature, longing for some high, solitary existence f the intellect and imagination. And he know that the three of them, Tom, Una, and himself, would die as they had lived, their desires unsatisfied...