Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milton Cross has won all sorts of prizes for dewy diction, but even he bumbles one now & then. The one he laughingly denies, although many others remember it lovingly, is the time he presented, with great fanfare, "The A & G Pypsies." Last semester, anxious to keep his diction up to snuff, he joined a course at Columbia, but he had to give it up. Too much homework...
Ernest Bloch: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra (Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting, with Joseph Szigeti; Columbia: 8 sides). Not for many years has 59-year-old musical Zionist Bloch wailed so fine a rhapsody. Violinist Szigeti gives his Oriental oratory superb diction...
Recounting their story with no Biblical diction, no religious fervor, and with nondescript, timeless costuming, Playwrights Coffee & Cowen make it plausible and human. To Mary they give dignity, and to her experiences in Jerusalem on the night of her Son's betrayal, drama. There is drama, too, when a likable young disciple introduces himself as Judas Iscariot...
With all due credit to Mr. Welles, the Theatre Guild, and the Mercury Theatre, "Five Kings" cannot hope to compete with Maurice Evans' production of Henry IV--inaudible diction alone will ensure that -- and even the best Shakespeare has a limited audience appeal. When it is so difficult to produce one play, it is hard to understand why Mr. Welles has undertaken to produce two, and possibly three. Some of these days we will have to run over to the Colonial after breakfast and find out just how many plays are being offered, but in this case "Five Kings...
...Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This time the stripper was Helen Jepson, streamlined Pennsylvania-born soprano. Critics approved Soprano Jepson's singing and her French diction but thought she undressed with a Pennsylvania accent...