Word: besse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
...music for himself and the 75 other blacks living in Catfish Row, returned last week to Manhattan. He was still the brainchild of Playwright DuBose Heyward, still the protege of Manhattan's Theatre Guild which took him under its wing eight years ago. For one week Porgy and Bess, with a 700-page score by Composer George Gershwin (TIME, Sept. 30), played in Boston, won high praise. On opening night in Manhattan half the Somebodies in town crowded in to hear this latest attempt at a U. S. folk opera...
...combined talents of George Gershwin as composer, DuBose Heyward as librettist and Rouben Mamoulian as director have been welded by the Theatre Guild's skillful wand into "Porgy and Bess" an "American Folk Opera" of unique distinction. Although it is essentially operatic material Mr. Gershwin has put his work upon the legitimate boards through a desire to give it broader circulation than it could achieve through operatic channels, and a good thing it is indeed...
...promise of American music. There are songs such as "Woman is a Sometime Thing", "I got Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "It ain't Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...
...cast, assembled with care and sound judgment, offers a large number of excellent negro talcuts. Credit must especially be given to Todd Dunean for a magnificent performance as Porgy, to Anne Wiggins Brown who played Bess, to John Bubbles who gave the full sum of his effervescent charm to the role of Sportin' Life, and to Warren Coleman as Crown...