Word: arthurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a Greenwich, Conn, housewife objected to his appearance in her town. Eventually Adler went back to England. Vaughan Williams wrote a piece for him; so did Darius Milhaud and Cyril Scott and Arthur Benjamin. In time, U.S. producers asked him to return. Now recording contracts are waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told...
...Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and principal speaker at the group's meeting last Saturday, said that colleges should raise their salaries in order to attract "the kind of people needed to provide leadership in an educational community...
Dunster House calls Duet "Two plays for music," apparently indicating that the nature of Arthur Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi-operatic commentary on the action will be disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume...
...English stage, "The only thing that can be said for our movement in England is that it's not a one-man band." Only John Osborne, Tynan thinks, can rank with Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill. The centers of the English movement are the Royal Court Theatre near the West End, where Osborne was discovered, and the Theatre Workshop in East London, which produced Brendan Behan. "And the great thing about it," he says, "is that it is being supported by young people." The plays of this new group are being largely written, directed, and watched by people under...
...charged that "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. has no place on the Harvard faculty because of his lack of personal integrity in writing on the Sacco-Vanzetti case...