Word: beggarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked to a beggar who said: "I take a supreme delight in watching the panic...
...couple of poor but happy friends. These poor but happy friends are the best thing in the picture, and it is they who save it from being slow and second-rate. Akim Tamiroff is a Russian waiting for his citizenship papers, and Lee Tracy is a legless beggar who seems to enjoy pushing himself around underfoot on a little roller-skate wagon. Mary Martin and Fred MacMurray are perfectly adequate in their roles, which demand neither a minimum nor a maximum of acting ability...
Pepusch-Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Glyndebourne Opera Company, with small orchestra conducted by Michael Mudie; Victor; 12 sides; $6.50). Poet John Gay's gusty ballad opera, with tunes of the day (1728) arranged by Dr. Johann Christoph Pepusch, here gets a nearly complete recording. Well sung but mumbly, and Victor has neglected to supply printed lyrics...
...mournful, melodious Mozart Requiem, the lusty John Gay-Christopher Pepusch Beggar's Opera, many another choice piece of music were heard last week in a Southern cotton-mill town. Rarely are such works performed in big cities. Spartanburg, S.C. (population: 32,500) is one of the smallest U.S. cities to support an annual music festival. Thanks to the present boss of the music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century...
...festival has no rich backers, no imported stars. In last week's Requiem the tenor soloist was an insurance agent, the baritone a city councilman who is in the sand business. A music-store clerk was the rollicking gangster hero of the 18th-Century low-lives in the Beggar's Opera; his moll was Ruth Ives, Converse voice teacher and operatic production manager...