Word: berge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FALMOUTH, MASS., Falmouth Playhouse: The Bronx seeks cooler climes with Gertrude Berg in Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling...
...with hooray but with who says) was lured back on several occasions to direct the French National Orchestra, and was even offered the important post of director of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. (He turned it down.) In 1963, the Paris Opera gave him a free hand in producing Alban Berg's Wozzeck: he demanded and got an unprecedented 30 rehearsals, and the opera scored a major triumph. In a six-week tour de force in Paris earlier this year, Boulez again conducted Wozzeck, helped to produce three Stravinsky ballets, gave eight concerts, performed on TV, and recorded an opera...
Died. Paul Derval, 85, director of the Folies-Bergère for 47 years, whose Paris pleasure dome introduced to the world such stars as Maurice Chevalier and Fernandel, but was most famed for tableaux of statuesque girls in scanty costumes pasteurized enough for the tourist family trade without losing all the spice of Gallic life; of a pulmonary edema; in Paris...
...four actors on stage carried the scene through to its conclusion before Miss Stone came on stage, said "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Friday the Thirteenth," and explained that the show would have to close. Pianist Brad Berg broke into "Anything Goes...
...organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled out of the river after a prolonged dunking that would have drowned a plainer girl. Most of her woes are devised by a supple archvillainess (Francine Bergé) who revels in evil for its own sake, keeps slipping out of her period gowns to dart away in tights, only to reappear moments later as an apache dancer or murderous...