Word: consulation
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...Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30). The award for the best musical play went to The Consul, written, composed and directed by Gian-Carlo Menotti (TIME, March...
...consul in Paris never directly denied the poet a visa. State Department officials contradicted themselves thin winter, however, in explaining why Emmanuel never received his visa. Secretary Dean Acheson said that the poet withdrew his application before it was acted...
With his hit shows The Medium and The Telephone (TIME, June 30, 1947), Gian-Carlo Menotti had already proved that he could sell pocket-sized opera to Broadway. Last week a first-night Broadway audience bought his first full three-acter, The Consul, and bravoed for more...
Menotti stretched his libretto and music around a situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...
...amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester's French Canadians speak a quaint "17th Century" French. One of the local pastors denounced Chatelain as just "a former dishwasher," and a French-Canadian society lodged a formal protest with the French consul in Boston...