Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night My Number Came Up stars Michael Redgrave in a thriller. Although the story of a man's death dream apparently coming true seems contrived, it still manages to be exciting. In its third week at the Kenmore...
...excitement centers about a tidy, well constructed, and, on the surface of it, quite unbelievable plot. It all starts plausibly enough with a dream related at a party given in Hong Kong in honor of a departing British Air Marshall. The dreamer clearly describes a plane crash in which he saw the death of the officer and the seven other passengers on board. Next day, when the Air Marshall makes his flight, the unlikely happens as the dream slowly starts to come true. Everything checks out as predicted: the plane runs into a snowstorm, the radio breaks down...
...required for these events to fall into the preordained pattern. The delayed-action technique works well while the plane is in the air, but much of the excitement is dissipated in long intervals on the ground. The characters then indulge in some vague philosophising, ("Perhaps nothing happens unless somebody dreams it first.") while a phonograph blares out with heavy-handed irony, "Everything in the dream was lovely." A somewhat stiff performance by Michael Redgrave as the officer does not help much either. He is overshadowed by Alexander Knox, who performs convincingly as one of the passengers, a civil servant caught...
...Stephen Addiss '57. "Confitebor tibi," for baritone and 'cello, did not come off very well. The ungratefully jagged vocal line posed inevitable intonational difficulties. Since the music bore no relation to the text, I think the piece would fare best as a purely instrumental duo. On the other hand, "Dream" and "Go Seek Her Out," both for soprano, were truly vocal conceptions, the first with a chordal accompaniment for two clarinets and 'cello, and the second with an attractive arpeggiated piano background. It was a welcome relief, furthermore, to hear songs with the text set straight through instead of having...
Living in the old human conviction that there are no whales like the old whales, the aging athlete usually likes to dream of the good old days when the guys in the game were really tough. He will curl a lip at the new generation, and complain that things and progress are not what they used to be. Then, in the words of that famed righthanded Arkansas philosopher, Jerome Herman Dean, he will ask himself, "What the hell is?"-and go back to his dreams...