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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...
...head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing all the changes on the predicament of a sympathetic wife who finds that her husband has been unfaithful, Kelly (and the wife) let the husband marry the other woman...
...Main Issue. In Brooklyn, FBI charged Louis Brander with evading the draft for fear he would have to give up treatments for his falling hair...