Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cave Overture, fainted dead away while Ringmaster Max explained: "Casarosa isn't as young as he thinks he is.'' In a mad finale, the "God of the Press" arrived in a thunderclap to terrify the revolting animals into submission. Corriere Delia Sera's critic echoed the cheering audience, found Composer Negri's patchwork pastiche "irreverent and thoroughly delightful...
...seven stars of Heartbreak House seem to be wandering aimlessly in a wilderness of script. Harold Clurman, for all his renown as director, critic, and general wise man of the theatre, seems to have no idea of what to do with Bernard Shaw's disturbing, strange drama...
...crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina...
...Critics were less amused than the audience. "Some of these composers," said Corriere della Sera severely, "falsified their music to please the children. That means they have sold their souls to the devil, which disqualifies them to write for the innocent." The final word was left to elegant, 62-year-old Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson. "I have no opinion on this performance," said he, "because I think Venice is not for children anyway and can only be appreciated when one is over 70 years...
...Critic by Acquisition. Beaverbrook's biggest donation is not the museum but most of the 300-odd paintings hanging in it. Valued at $2,100,000, Beaverbrook's collection provides the gallery with a comprehensive sampling of British art from Hogarth to Francis Bacon, representative works of nearly all Canadian artists of stature, plus a scattered few paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn...