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...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...
Make Mine Music (Walt Disney-RKO Radio), which has been described by one wag as the poor man's Fantasia, is a Technicolored musical blue-plate special, prepared for the 18-to-2 y-year-old age group which has heretofore proved least responsive to Disney films...
...first, the Winnipeg Ballet started ambitiously with a 48-piece orchestra in the pit, put a heavy handicap of debt on the troupe. But in 1941 the success of Walt Disney's Fantasia led to a money-saving experiment in canned music. Now the ballet is danced to recordings, boomed at the spectators from loudspeakers. Despite the tour, the company...
Sunday night, from 7:15 to 8 o'clock, there will be a concert, in which members of the house will participate. Francois G. Leydet '48, pianist, will play the Chopin "Revolutionary Etude" and the Mozart "Fantasia." Mozart's Clarinet Concerto will be performed by Don Mishara '46, accompanied by Nicholas Van Slyck Occ. An original work by Van Slyek, "Sonats for Trumpet and Piano", will be played by the composer and Hugh L. Whitehouse...
...spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets grounded, along with the showboat. The plot trails off, without even leaving footprints, in all directions; the people go through a lot of boisterous but baffling antics; a dream fantasia nominally involving Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury gets wedged somewhere into the proceedings...