Word: dacosta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, will probably have several more before it finishes its two months on the road. The Detroit Times found the "situations and dialogue so uniformly funny . . . that even the most racy moments are disarming." ¶ Saratoga has been dressed up by Designer Cecil Beaton, but Morton DaCosta's musical version of Edna Ferber's Saratoga Trunk does not yet live up to its magnificent settings. With a $1,500,000 advance sale, Saratoga is sure of a long Broadway run, but Harold Arlen's music needs all the help it can get from Singer Carol (West Side...
Furious at the acquittal, Castro exploded that "it has been a grave error of the revolutionary tribunal to absolve those criminal pilots." He had Chief Defense Counsel Aristides Dacosta hauled in by rebel troops and flown to military headquarters in Havana for a talking-to. He sent his bearded Defense Minister, Augusto Martinez, to Santiago to organize a "review" court. The new verdict: 30 years at hard labor for the pilots, lesser terms for non-pilots. Two were acquitted...
Turning a sophisticated comic strip of a novel into an even broader but somewhat less vulgar play, the adapters-with wonderful help from Designer Oliver Smith-have hit on a kind of scene-a-minute technique. Their slapdash method, though highly uncreative, is not entirely illadvised. Thanks to Morton DaCosta's lively staging, it makes speed a kind of substitute for wit, and puts pedestrian writing on horseback. Its quick-changes also consort well with Auntie Mame's scatterbrained nature, besides providing a fine succession of new costumes, new hairdos, new wall treatments, new gaffes, new predicaments...