Word: fandangos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FANDANGO ROCK (371 pp.)-John Masters-Harper...
Storyteller Masters, Calcutta-born Englishman-turned-American, whose tales of India (Nightrunners of Bengal, Coroman-del!) are full of a mysterious yeast, explains how he hit on Fandango Rock as a title. "Once, in a narrow street in Zaragoza, late at night, there were two radios" -one playing "the subtle, introspective, and uncompromising rhythms of a fandango," the other whanging out "a rock-and-roll, simple, outgoing-and uncompromising." Masters hits his moment of truth with this gone lyric...
...Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski. Natalia Solario does not stoop to conquer. Yet her adroitly detached existence ends abruptly one evening when brother Eugene returns, penniless and impenitent, from his twelve-year exile. At this point, Madame Solario shifts from waltz time to offbeat fandango...
...possible a diversity of insights into the Comédie's methods of production. If much is traditional and even ritualistic, very little seems petrified. In view of interspersed high slapstick of dancing and singing and fencing masters, of ostentatious banquet scenes and staircase serenades, of a Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm in all its horseplay...
...best of the good things- a round song called The Story of Alice-is done with the high-styled nonsensicality of a good British revue number. There is some of the same appeal in a song-and-dance fandango called Gruntled: the gimmick of the lyrics (ept, kempt, scrutable) is pretty old hat, but the general air and the wacky ballroom dancing are gay Among the sketches, there is a funny take-off of the current movie Marty and a fairly funny take-off of matinee ladies Two or three other skits, on such themes as Tennessee Williams and marriage...