Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sir Thomas was helping Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera make a smashing success in Chicago. Said the Chicago Tribune's discriminating Claudia Cassidy of Sir Thomas' Faust: "Its most persuasive points were Beecham's energetic pursuit of the beauty and brimstone of Gounod's imperishable score. . . . Sometimes the result was so delightful you wished the stars would stop singing." Throughout the winter Sir Thomas has been one of the chief ornaments of the Met's conductorially brilliant season on its home grounds. Between times he has galvanized the young, awkward Brooklyn Symphony into...
Showing promise of a fine season the third Adams victory was oven more decisive than the score might indicate. The standout performers for the Gold Coast quintet were Bill Wilcox and Ray Holtan, who have been steadily leading the team's attack. Jim Faust took the high scoring honors for the defeated Puritans...
Standouts for the Puritans were Jim Faust and Dave Loring, who between them accounted for the majority of the Winthrop tallies. Faust was a particular aid to the Puritan cause with his accurate long shots...
...Nights in a Barroom" fall hardest where it should have shone brightest. The specialty numbers--especialty those of old-timer Vic Faust, a toothless Al Smith with a hangover--click beautifully. But the attempts of the rest of the cast to pile on the old-fashioned melodrama with a trowel fall pretty flat. They use restraint where hamming is called for; and they don't even give the villain-hissing audience a fighting chance to display its wares. A livelier paced direction, with more emphasis on the exists and entrances that give blood-and-thunder its special quality would have...
Dunlay and Morgan, a pair of agile tumblers, and the aging exuberance of Vic Faust outshadow anything that the non-burlesque-minded members of the cast are capable of, which may be a clue to the general weakness of the show. A little bit of the Old Howard touch might have served to get some of that excess enthusiasm over to the audience. As it stands, there's a free-for-all battle between the actors and the ticket-buyers. Either way, the customer loses...