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...present theatrical season, which has seen virtually every major dramatist represented by a work in production or in preparation, witnessed the arrival of a fine new musical comedy at the Opera House last week. Recent musical comedy productions have, without exception, suffered by comparison with the unforgettable "Oklahoma!", and "Twilight Alley," the new Duke Ellington-John Latonche play, provides no variation from the general rule. 'In contrast to the many anemic and warstarved musicals which have cluttered up the glitterdust circuit in recent years, however, it is a lusty, healthy show, brilliantly staged, with an excellent score and fine...
...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
...Clifford Odets, dead-serious dramatist, made a defense of his Hollywood career: "It is good and even useful to be working in a place like Hollywood. . . . It is a good place in which to get one's bearings...
Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
...outline, the story resembles Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: an aging writer goes down to the Italian seaside to rest in the sun. Tabori takes this theme, twists it around to fit a modern situation and his own ends. The aging writer is Stefan Farkas, noted Hungarian dramatist. His train reaches San Fernando one day in the summer of 1943. He has been told that San Fernando will be "safe" for months to come. He wants a vacation and a rest. The war has made him nervous...