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...rather at the whole species. He thinks back to the brave days of Gilbert and Sullivan, of "Patience" and of "Pinafore." When the curtain rises on a new show, he recalls Sullivan's baton at the Savoy, and nostalgia overcomes him. He blows the froth off the new theatrical brew, looks within the stein, and finds it empty. Disappointment has made him crusty, and of the modern shows he applauds only "Of Thee I Sing," the one perfect blend of the "hey-nonny-nonny...
Simone Boccanegra has powerful, cumulative moments but it lacks the tunes which have made Rigoletto and Trovatore hurdy-gurdy matter. The plot is a complicated brew of political intrigue, kidnapping and poisoning which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov...
Bloody Laughter is strong theatrical brew. It was written by Ernst Toller who has spent a good deal of his time in various German jails since the War for being an incorrigible Red. His Man and The Masses was produced by the Theatre Guild...
...saying during the past 25 years about British Pluck. To the lovers it means discovery and ruin. To the porky pair, the male member of which shuffles about in that funniest of theatrical garments, the nightshirt, it is just the sort of nuisance one would expect the French to brew. To the novelist it is death...
...Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian, who until he quarreled with General Calles six months ago was always considered the least ambitious...