Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest, a current folk tale has it that a peasant came to the city, approached a policeman, and asked him the way to Stefania Street. "It's not Stefania Street now," answered the cop, "it's been changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over...
...Silver Whistle (by Robert McEnroe; produced by the Theatre Guild) tells how a spacious liar and accomplished charlatan rejuvenates an old folks' home. A 47-year-old hobo, Oliver Erwenter (José Ferrer) poses as a superbly virile codger of 77 and passes out to the men folk a magical aphrodisiac (actually, small bread pellets). He tells lordly yarns of foreign travel and female conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks...
...everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...
...more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...
...Folk songs composed the bulk of the program, numbers from Latin America, from England and America, and from the Yale Song Book. The first portion ended with a swirl in Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," conducted by the composer and sung enthusiastically, if not distinctly, by the two Glee Clubs. After the intermission, the Yale group did a moving interpretation of the cowboy song "Old Paint," but they waited till their "Deitsch Company," an old drinking song, to bring down the house. The double yodel featured here was at once carefree and harmonious, and the Harvard group, a more Glee Club...