Word: dramaâ
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...rearview mirror guarantees a crash. The best of Follies indicates that the art of the theater, like all art, must renew itself by destroying tradition or by using it in fresh ways. Follies amply demonstrates that the musical?America's single greatest contribution to the history of drama???need not become the exclusive province of the antique dealer or the rock group. In style and substance it can be as flexible as a film, as immediate as a street scene. Lyrics need not be laundry lists; melody need not be cacophony or syrup. Sondheim's experiments with sonority may sound...
...game resembled a sandlot final rather than a world championship; only the presence of the President of the U. S. through the whole nine innings and the crowded stands built on the roofs of houses beyond the right field wall contributed color. Only once did the game tighten into drama???the Cardinal's half of the seventh?but the Athletics stopped that rally. Score: Philadelphia 5, St. Louis...
...motion picture producers are gnashing in the neighborhood of 1,000 gold teeth over the tidings that Rudyard Kipling has parted with the film rights to Kim. The gnashing is particularly reverberant owing to the fact that he has given them to an amateur in the field of flickering drama???and a woman, at that! The woman and the amateur?Miss Maude Adams...
...Leacock Plays on the Drama???He Gets Hearty Laughter...
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