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...Major Barbara is a funny show and the Loeb production loses none of that humor. There's the menagerie of Lady Britomart, Undershaft's estranged wife. Her son Stephen (Charles Degelman) cavills, while her son-in-law-to-be (William Docken) snivels, while Roger Zim as a ghoulish, confused butler looks...
...permitted to visit when she was quite young. Upon arriving in England she sent a poem she had written to a family friend in Ireland who happened to be editor of the Irish Statesman. The family friend was A. E. (George Russell), poet and intimate of William Butler Yeats. He liked the poem, and sent the young poetess two guineas for it. "He said he was sure no one but an Irish person could have written it and he asked for more," Miss Travers said. She traveled to Ireland, and came to know A. E. and Yeats well...
...interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer...
Neither does Joe. The poor scared creature lives a life of adolescent fantasy. "In his thoughts he went walking down Park Avenue. Rich ladies looking out their windows swooned to see a cowboy there. A butler tapped him on the shoulder, an elevator whirred him up to a penthouse, a golden door opened into a large apartment carpeted from wall to wall with soft brown fur. Madame was wearing scanties covered by a sheer black negligee. Quivering with desire, she threw herself onto the soft floor. He took her. The butler handed him a signed check on which the amount...
Gentle Wisdom. As always, Catton deals gently with the profound errors in generalship that, on both sides, tragically upped the cost in blood. The worst he can find to say of the Union's Ben Butler, who never once did the right thing on any battlefield, is that his "military operations defy rational analysis...