Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera's third opera in English this season. The first two, Fledermaus and Cosí Fan Tutte, were brilliant hits, in which almost every word came through clearly. But after listening to his singers maim a new translation of Puccini's one-act comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, Bing was about ready to concede that it might as well be sung in Bantu. In this, as it turned out at the performance the next night, Bing had merely anticipated public opinion...
Operating under such handicaps of plot, but with the help of some amusing dialogue, Nightclub Comic Danny Thomas puts remarkable warmth into a portrait of Kahn. The songwriter is pictured as an earnest craftsman of simple tastes, shy beneath a brash surface, who needed, resented and forgave his wife's constant efforts to push him forward. Actor Thomas' performance won him a four-year Warner contract before the picture's release...
Miracle in Milan. A comic masterpiece of fantasy by Italy's Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica (TIME...
...Hemingway, but have had enough intelligence and drive to cut their own paths. Stories by Nelson Algren, Erskine Caldwell, Paul Horgan, Albert Maltz, Jean Stafford and Wallace Stegner deal with such basic human situations as the feelings of parents as they take a dead baby to the cemetery, the comic tangle of a farm hand who gets into trouble while courting, the pain of a girl recuperating from an accident. These writers offer hope that the short story in the U.S. still has a lively future...
Films like this one may soon replace the comic book as a means of luring students into the R.O.T.C. They show what fun the big boys have with real guns and million dollar airplanes, and also promote the rosy illusion that War is pretty much of a picnic...