Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening touring Violinist Nathan Milstein found himself in Chicago, all dressed up and no place to go. In a bit of a funk, he consulted his contract, which cryptically stated that he was to play a concert that night in suburban Evanston, Ill. Misplaced Person Milstein, at a loss for details on exactly where, appealed for help to the Chicago Tribune's omniscient Drama & Musicritic Claudia Cassidy. Manning her telephone, Claudia finally hit on the right place, just an hour before curtain time. At 8 p.m. Fiddler Milstein, calm but breathless, strode onstage at Northwestern University's Cahn...
...brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova's Juliet, not quite girlish and a bit plumper about the waist than the American fashion in dancers...
...story of Prosper Merimee, author of the original story; 4) the relation between Carmen and her male counterpart, Don Giovanni; 5) Carmen in Korea. Each time one of the old operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz and her two assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something old but new, e.g., next season's La Périchole (Offenbach), never before performed by the Met, comes up, the possibility of doing some spadework in virgin soil goes to her head "like wine...
...play, Mister Johnson's death has not quite enough of Mister Johnson's life behind it, and seems, though genuinely moving, a little bit wheeled into place. Yet the play's great and steady virtue is that Mister Johnson is always flesh and blood and not just a personalized symbol. It is also a great virtue of the production that Earle Hyman plays the role with particular suppleness as well as appeal. As Mister Johnson's heartsick British judge and executioner, William Sylvester plays well too, and William and Jean Eckart have evocatively mounted the play...
...almost 20 years since Author Chevallier tickled a lot of readers with The Scandals of Clochemerle, a French village in the Beaujolais country, where every bit of thick underbrush had a tale to tell. Clochemerle is The Wicked Village, but no one is expected to take the title seriously. To be sure, everyone drinks too much wine, but after all, they grow the stuff and depend on it for a livelihood. In the spring the boys and girls are apt to experiment a little too ardently or carelessly, so that a rather high proportion of firstborns are illegitimate. But marriage...