Word: berta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates were identified as Somogyi Berta and Jozsef Farkas. Their pictures had appeared in Lifemagazine's series on the revolution. They were depicted being shot down by rebels...
...Count Almaviva, Malcolm Ticknor handles his small voice nicely in his arias but tends to get drowned out in the ensembles. His acting is particularly effective in the second act when he pretends to be a drunken soldier. Margaret Russell sings Berta's aria rather pleasingly...
...play has its pleasant, kindly and vigorous scenes. On occasion, too, there is a certain piquancy to its childlike scramblings of time and place. As Noah, Menasha Skulnik (The Fifth Season) is not only engaging and funny, but touching and dignified; and Berta Gersten can be funny and touching as his sour-sweet wife...
...view of Noah's relationship with God, is too often stretched to the point of flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter into Odets' idea of the Flood as a human parable...
Died. Mme. Berta Morena, 74, German-born, oldtime soprano of the Munich Opera (1898-1924) and the Metropolitan Opera (1908-12; 1924-25), famed for her good looks and spectacular voice (her specialty: Wagner); after long illness; at her home in Rottach, Germany...