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...rule Barataria together and gives G & S good reason to make clever lyrics about people who do not believe in monarchy but have to be king. And this, after all, is the only important point. Gondoliers, which opens with twenty solid minutes of singing, may be the lightest, frothiest, most musical musical G & S ever wrote. And the word is that director John Lundeen is planning to do the production in the lightest, frothiest, most delightful G & S style...
These others are Elias Kulukundis, Sally Ryder and Herbert Propper. Kulukundis, playing the personable young man, is personable; he is also very nearly immobile. He is fine when he can be bellicose, but by and large he makes this frothiest of plays as ponderous as possible...
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Richard Tucker, Frank Guarrera; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Fritz Stiedry; Columbia). One of the frothiest librettos in opera, in English adaptation, and clean-cut performances of some of Mozart's most winning tunes. The "official" Met version...
...Vechten is a brilliant writer. Parts of Peter Whiffle, parts of The Blind Bow-Boy, more particularly certain portions of his essays exhibit rare qualities of humor and beauty. Yet his books lack body and form, even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...time. "Soap Bubbles of Socialism, by Professor Simon Newcomb, indirectly controverts Powderly and Bellamy theories with a sort of ingen uousness that reminds one that a horse chestnut may be proved a chestnut horse. "The Typical American," by Andrew Lang and Max O'Rell, is of the very frothiest substance. but the Lang half has a sparkle which the O'Rell one is totally without. "Audacity in Woman Novelises," by George Parsons Lathrop, is partly a reply to Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's "Corversational Immoralities" in the April number, and wholly an acknowledgement of woman's continually increasing position...