Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffer from comparison. As Jonathan Peachum, Fred Kimball can carry along the Brecht text in those rare moments when it wants in wit. Plagued by throat trouble, Kimball's singing was only the more authentic for the part. Dean Gitter, as Mack the Knife, was amusing and sleazy on cue, and when called upon near the end to carry the whole production through several numbers, rose to the occasion with no strain. He was a fine Macheath. With principals so admirably in hand, Mr. Aaron might look to The Gang, which seemed to me a little rough in the first...
...short, stooped man carrying a vocal score sits down quietly beside Pardoll. His name is Antonio Dell'Orefice, and he is one of the Met's seven "maestros"-unobtrusive musicians of clerklike appearance whose job it is to follow the score and cue curtains, entrances, exits...
...support his family, and living at home. Another patient, who at first could not remember lines for more than a few minutes, eventually memorized his part letter-perfect, and his memory for other matters improved. A third, who insisted he could not see his script or even a cue card, was won around to the point where first he read fluently, then acted his part freely...
...long (since 1941, with the single exception of 1949, when an attack of nerves ruined his game) that he seemed scornful of any opposition. Willie sat in his chair, smoked and impatiently tapped his foot while Joe made his runs. Then he moved to the table, chalked his cue and stroked his shots with swift perfection. Most blocks he won handily; scores were as lopsided as 150 to 8. "It's a great game, but it's not much fun any more," Willie complains. "There are only about ten real pros in pocket billiards-only five...
...going through with the Paris agreements, said Molotov, "the peace-loving states of Europe must unite their forces and considerably strengthen them . . . This demands that the countries attending the present conference carry out common measures in the field of organizing their military forces and commands" against "possible aggression." On cue, Premier Otto Grotewohl said that "should militarism be revived in West Germany," his East German Republic "will find itself forced to answer by forming national armed forces...