Word: counts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About five miles south of the Mason-Dixon line, the bleak, coal-mining town of Osage, W. Va. (pop. 900) promptly obeyed the Supreme Court's 1954 decision against segregated public schools. The Negroes (1958 count: 93 among 358 pupils) took their places in the nine-grade school (elementary and junior high) and became a reliable part of the basketball team. Two Negro teachers joined the 17-member faculty...
...primary ingredient, of course, is the memory of last year's fiasco, in which a powerful Eli squad ran the score up so high that most people lost count. But more recently, a series of rather pointed statements from football VIPs at the two colleges have added fat to the fire...
Later at night, the Count, still in nun's garb, slips into the countess' bedroom and, by mistake, makes love to his own page, who has dressed himself up as a woman, while the countess observes from the sidelines...
These two scenes make up most of the second half of the evening and are well worth a trip into Boston. The specific vehicle for all this comedy is Rossini's opera Count Ory (given with only a few small cuts), and its agents are the members of the New England Opera Theatre, of which the indefatigable Boris Goldovsky is artistic director...
Goldovsky has assembled a highly capable young company of solo singers and choristers; and some of them can even act. In this production, John McCollum is as fine a Count Ory as one could want. Ewan Harbrecht, as Countess Adele, has a small but beautifully trained voice, and tosses off all her demanding fioriture with complete case. Ronald Holgate (The Tutor) has a rich bass voice; all he needs now is to strengthen his bottom register. David Smith (Raimbaud) has a pleasingly full timbre, as has Doris Okerson (Ragonda) when she gets over her initial edginess...