Word: brander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera, produced at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater, is a tuneful romp through the world of the daytime TV serial. The libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at the point where a married doctor is pursuing his beautiful nurse, who in turn is in love with one Donald Hopewell. The nurse discourages the doctor with a wallop ("Touché, Miss Markham; I deserved that"), and the etherized Donald is saved just as the doctor is about...
...lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity of a third-rate burlesque skit is Eric (In Search of Theater) Bentley, 40, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University and a leading snob-about-the-theater who argues that there must be theaters for the cultured few, so as to save the "intelligent" drama from commercialism...
Here he praises the saguaro, the prickly pear and the wicked cholla cactus with all the exuberance of a convert. His companions are no longer Columbia University students, whom he once taught as Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, but creatures of the Sonoran sands -road runners, elf owls, jack rabbits, Gila monsters, tarantulas and scorpions...
...summer only because it was short and could be dashed off in a few months. On his second sabbatical, in 1942, he picked a libretto that "wouldn't work" and "missed the boat." He wrote a Quintet and some songs instead. Last week audiences in Columbia's Brander Matthews Hall saw and heard what good, grey Douglas Moore, 57, had cooked up on his third sabbatical...
...Broadway for more than a year in 1935-36. Two years ago, when German-born Composer Jan Meyerowitz, of the Berkshire Music Center, asked him for a modern opera libretto, Poet Hughes reached for his Cross again. Last week audiences at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Hall heard the two-act result, The Barrier...