Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: The Wooden Prince (The New Symphony Orchestra of London conducted by Walter Siisskind; Bartok, 2 LPs). Music for a "dancing play" from the late Hungarian master's middle period. The plot: boy wants girl; fairy queen (in enchanted forest) thwarts boy; girl wants boy; boy bored. The music...
A Stringed Lute. Not all Wilde epigrams merely amuse. Many cannot be read without an almost haunting sense of familiarity-because so many of the playful paradoxes in which Wilde turned the world upside down have since become realities. Seeing Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, demolish morality...
The plot, which was designed to give the Magnani physiognomy a full workout, concerns a troupe of Italian actors in a Spanish colony in 18th century South America. As Camilla, the troupe's earthy and impetuous leading lady, Miss Magnani wins the love of the colony's viceroy, who is...
A less ambitious transcription from Henry James, The Innocents, proved William Archibald an accomplished craftsman. In some two hours imposed by the theatre, however, even he can't execute an intricate portrait laid on with the brush strokes of eight hundred pages. He has drawn the lines faithfully, attentive to...
MAMMY PLEASANT'S PARTNER, by Helen Holdredge (300 pp.; Putnam; $4.50), a follow-up on last year's intriguing Mammy Pleasant, tells what happened in brash, crime-infested 19th century San Francisco when an unprincipled Scotsman, fleeing a murky past, teamed up with a ruthless quadroon beauty, in...