Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidently a favorite with him, for he did three settings of it and even plagiarized from it for other works. Schmidt chose the second version with words by John Gay of Beggar's Opera fame. The charming soprano and tenor solos were beautifully handled by Sarah-Jane Smith and Antonio Giarraputo...
...role is tinged with didacticism; the actors seem obviously to be reciting lines from a play. This difficulty leads to a considerable loss of emotional content and also of humor--the play is, after all, billed as "a comedy." At times, as in the repartee between Teresa's fiance Antonio and the nuns, Woodruff's direction is simply too slow, so that the question-answer sequence proceeds too jerkily and much of its humor evaporates. The director has also missed an important element of the play by neglecting the time dimension; he has failed to effect any change...
...Sister Marcella was miscast; she lacked the youth and radiance that this nun, who secretly keeps a mirror to catch sunbeams with, should have. In the male roles, Donald McAllister as the Doctor was stiff, formal, and didactic where he should have been casual, worldly, and sarcastic. As Antonio, Robert J. Morris was earnest enough, but substituted too much savoir faire and pompousness for what should have been a certain degree of awkwardness before the nuns...
...Haven't Much Strength." The afternoon of dignified salutations wore on. At the tomb of Panamanian President José Antonio Remón, who was assassinated 19 months ago, President Eisenhower laid a wreath, paused to chat with Remón sister, Carmen Hortensia Remón, who asked about his health. Ike's reply quickly buzzed through the press corps in three different languages. "I am feeling fairly well," he said. "I haven't much strength, but I keep going...
...program is under the direction of Professor Harold Schmidt, assisted by Sara-Jane Smith '56, soprano; Antonio Garoputo, tenor; Polly Davis and Gaston Allaire, accompanists...