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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purples & Pinks. For his part, Designer Gerard wanted to create an "effect" of Egypt that the modern eye could accept and believe. Emphasizing massiveness ("a Rockefeller Center without windows") rather than the usual archeological detail, his Egypt sometimes seems closer to Broadway than the Nile. Even so, it is effective: his third-act temple looms 36 feet high, four feet higher than his Don Carlo sets (which broke Met records). As he did in Don Carlo, he moved everything down close to the footlights so that many in the Met's 500 "blind" seats could see. But what would...
...months in the shooting at Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
Stanger returned after intermission to conduct Franck's D Minor Symphony. This old favorite offers numerous interpretative problems, most of which the young conductor solved adequately. He ignored some of the details--thus sparing the audience from the excessive chromatics in melody and harmony which can make the music tedious--and gave a broad, sweeping rendition, powerfully conceived and delivered. However, this de-emphasis of detail sank to downright sloppiness in the second movement. Intonation was foul, pick-ups inaccurate, and the melodic line sounded jerky...
Crusade in the Pacific (appearing locally in 53 cities) crowds a broad canvas with vivid and exciting detail. More ambitious than its TV companion piece, Crusade in Europe, the new MARCH OF TIME series sets out to tell the history of the Pacific world from 1931 to the present day. It deals with the awakening continent of Asia and the fighting in Korea as well as with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit...
...first 45 years. They were the years when he was called The Great Engineer and savior of the hungry-and years of travel, discoveries, successes and adventures. Some future biographer may make a better story of it all, but Autobiographer Hoover has a pretty good memory for significant detail...