Word: claudia
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Kiepura that night was a Don José without restraint. But the score, as the curtain fell: no knockouts. The judge's decision (by Critic Claudia Cassidy): "Miss Glade was supple, audacious, and sure of herself, singing in the wild mezzo that can range from voluminously lovely to something as fuzzy...
Joel Ashley takes a good bite out of the juiciest part, that of Tiny, the cheerful extrovert. Claudia Morgan is somewhat less at home as Judith, though she snaps to life in the last act. Broun would probably get the biggest kick, though. out of the wise-cracking ball players portrayed by Karl Malden, Lewis Charles, and Fred Sherman. They talk his language, and it's the language the audience would have liked to hear more...
...partly because of their shortcomings. But sheer escape, sheer fluff and frivolity has not completely swamped the theater. Despite the terrific jump in productions, musicals have not multiplied: ten last season, ten this. Of three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar...
Last December Claudia got her break: Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun (present circ. 310,000) hired her as its music critic. Last week she got another: the Chicago Tribune snatched her away from the Sun, will now spread her opinions before 1,150,000 readers...
This change fixed up Claudia Cassidy and the Chicago Tribune fine, but left the rest of the Chicago press in bad shape musically. The Sun replaced Claudia with aging (70), venerable Felix Borowski, who has written eminently sound but eminently dull notes for the Chicago Symphony programs for years. The Chicago Daily News, on a policy of penny-wisdom, has been having its syrupy art critic, C. J. Bulliet, triple in brass: he writes not only music but movies and the theater. The Times has a stockbroker, R. J. Pollack, who writes music notes in his spare time (which...