Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When George Bernard Shaw and Giacomo Puccini brightened TV screens last week, the countinghouse critics scoffed; CULTURE GETS TRENDEX SHELLACKING headlined Variety. Indeed, the 90-minute live Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Maurice Evans and Joan Greenwood, ran behind its opposition with a Trendex rating of 12. And the Ed Sullivan Show fell off eight points to 33 as it featured Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas and Baritone George London in an 18-minute scene from Tosca...
Sending a Library of Congress audience into a gale of scholarly snickers, aging (79) Biographer Archibald Henderson, a perennial examiner of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, trotted out a brand-new after-Shavian notion. It seems, related Henderson, that Shaw once got a letter that got the better of him. It was addressed to George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, Shaw roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed G.B.S., there was no such word as "shawm." Shaw's wife, one of the world...
...less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage, and thus even more effective (as a shepherd gone M.P.) is John Bernard, a Strephon with a good voice and lively (though mortal) legs...
...British critics as a visual equivalent of rock 'n' roll. Prime example is Painter William Scott, 43, now having his first one-man show in Manhattan at the Martha Jackson Gallery. Scott's ominous saucepans owe something to the slick stick school of France's Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), just as his segmented, all-red nudes do to Jean Dubuffet's art brut. But placed alongside Manhattan's avant-garde painting they look right at home...
...obscure reasons, is ready to die with the girl with whom he did not wish to live. Norma is usually called a singers' opera, a triumph of bel canto, and it does have magnificent vocal passages, notably two duets for the two leading female singers. But (as Bernard Shaw once said of the young Verdi) Bellini's orchestra sounds like a giant guitar; it plinkety-plinks through embarrassing military airs, mindless rages and cloying romances...