Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact is not that Yale is 250 years old today, but how it managed to get that old. For Yale, which is now Gothically situated in New Haven, was spawned, nursed, and sent out into the Great World by Harvard men. In return for this loving care Yale, like Frankenstein's monster, has turned on its creator and done all sorts of outrageous things--such as beating the Crimson quite regularly in football. This type of thing is quite like Yale, which has capitalized on Harvard's temporary weaknesses all through its life...
...looked as though he might chew up every backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...
...Charlotte Boerner, soprano; Janssen Symphony Orchestra, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). Berg's masterful concert aria extols the qualities of wine ("I make your wife's eyes sparkle and give fresh strength to your son") in twelve-tone style. San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein explains the twelve-tone language (with Bergian illustrations) on the second side. Performance and recording: excellent...
Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle with the Summer School Faculty, will provide a lecture commentary. He discovered the Hartmann pictures which Moussorgsky saw in St. Petersberg 75 years ago, after they had been considered lost for several years...
...Mario went to Hollywood, and Hollywood has been his Frankenstein. The pressure he is under is tremendous, always having to put up a front; and his voice is not settled yet. He knows he has come up too fast and he feels insecure. For this he overcompensates by boasting and showing off. There is still time. Ten years with the right opera company, and no one could compare with him. But who can expect him, after being a star, to go back to learning? I have been trying to talk him into touring in Italy a year. But you cannot...