Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of a dream-Deathwatch probably has something to do with this hobby of his. It is a dangerous hobby, however, likely to lead an author into arid jiggery-pokery. Probably both directors were wise in refusing to sacrifice to it the excitement we derive from watching people act and suffer onstage, rather than dream-phantoms. A proudction directed along Genet's lines might easily be bloody dull, but since Genet is to a great extent liberated from our values, there is no telling what might come into his mind. Perhaps dullness was for some reason his intention. Well, Genet...
...Rossini had a great talent for melody and for using the human voice superbly (he was a fine professional singer himself). He also knew how to score well for orchestra; no other work of Rossini is orchestrated with such elegance and nuance as Ory. And the bedroom trio in Act II is inspired writing of the first order; Berlioz was quite right in proclaiming this scene absolutely the finest music in Rossini's entire oeuvre...
Goldovsky has assembled a highly capable young company of solo singers and choristers; and some of them can even act. In this production, John McCollum is as fine a Count Ory as one could want. Ewan Harbrecht, as Countess Adele, has a small but beautifully trained voice, and tosses off all her demanding fioriture with complete case. Ronald Holgate (The Tutor) has a rich bass voice; all he needs now is to strengthen his bottom register. David Smith (Raimbaud) has a pleasingly full timbre, as has Doris Okerson (Ragonda) when she gets over her initial edginess...
According to James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, president of the HDC, the five left "because they were not content to act; they wanted to direct, too." He added that, with the replacements, "the production is probably in better shape than before...
...take up only some of the points mentioned by him, Pakistan's poverty does not "far surpass India's." Per capita income in both countries is about the same. The problem of absentee land holdings was first tackled in the Eastern wing when the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 abolished feudal "Zamindari" which was originally created by the British after their conquest of Bengal. In West Pakistan, a somewhat different system of landlordism has persisted, but plans to reform it are a top priority item with the new Government. Pakistan's population is growing currently at a rate...