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Hungarian Playwright Molnár works this all out like a game of chess with delightful ambiguity, some suspense and a saucy wit. Everything depends on the two leads. In his jealous anxiety, Bedford can twitch his nose like a mouse scenting cheese. He affects a synthetic Russian accent that...
Many facts about Nabokov's youth and early manhood are little known be cause of what Field sees as the aristocratic artist's need to be inaccessible to others. If, for example, Nabokov had told us that Leo Tolstoy once patted him on the head, it would sound...
His figures run together into a delightful melange of bodies and limbs, patterns and colors. Often it is hard to determine how many figures are in the painting, but the people are recognizable. They are today's rich executives, shapely secretaries, tasteless show-offs and bothersome tourists.
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never...
The play has a slew of minor characters worth noting. Julie Zickefoose gets several laughs as the marriage and exercise-crazed German opera singer, Mme. Ernestine von Liebedich. She teams up with Skip Mendler, the delightful society lecher, for the nostalgic "Do You Ever Dream of Vienna."