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Aleksandr Boredin's first musical since Prince igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With a vigorous cootch dance, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind...
...unable to espouse and realizes what Mr. Sheean could not that, as shown in "Personal History." Communism is in the last analysis but another extreme, another Utopia. One leaves Mr. Sheean convinced of the significance in the fact that so honest a man, striving as he did to achieve Boredin's "long view," turned away from Russia when forced to choose between it and the western civilization of his birth...
...program of numbers to be played at the "Pops" at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Overture to "Fra Diavolo" Auber 2. Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" R. Strauss 3. March of the Little lead Soldiers Pierne 4. Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Boredin 5. Overture Solennelle, "1812" :Tachailkovsky 6. Song to the Evening Star Wagner 7. "A Kiss in the Dar," from "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 8. Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohr, Jacchia 9. Fantasia, 'La Travinta" Verdi 10. Largo Handel(Solo Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ. 11. March, "Washington Post" Sousa
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