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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G&S Players are familiar to Cambridge audiences, and the high quality of their productions is well-established. But no regular University group has yet ventured into summer productions, and the prospect of seeing an amateur group stacked against professional summer stock was, to say the least, interesting. After viewing Monday night's opening, one cannot say that the Players are of professional quality, but one hastens to emphasize that they bring to the stage a freshness and gayety which is both the very essence of G & S and the basis of successful amateurism...
There is room for argument on whether The Gondoliers is the very best of G & S, or whether by 1889, when it was first produced, the old formula was becoming somewhat stylized and losing its freshness. Actually, I subscribe to the former view, for the opera contains some of the most ingenious of Gilbert's lyrics, a generous supply of Sullivan's best tunes, and more than a sprinkling of biting satire which seems even more relevant today than...
...plot, like all G & S, is incidental to the essence, which is the songs themselves. The Gondoliers revolves around that stock English situation of changelings and mistaken identities, and ends with a happy resolution of the whole mess. The satire is aimed directly at both the pretensions of monarchy and the stupidity of the levellers who would supplant it. Except with Shakespeare and G & S, kings tend to set one yawning, but the Duke of Plaza-Toro and the King of Barataria are rollicking good fun. The brunt of the satire falls on the Gondoliers themselves, however, and their attempts...
...Government guarantee on any loan from private sources; the other, in the House, would allow airline operators, like homeowners, to reinvest proceeds from the sale of old planes in new equipment without paying a capital-gains tax. Without such help, warned the Air Transport Association's President Stuart G. Tipton, one of the most promising of all U.S. industries will stay "stuck on dead center." Shoppers & Salesmen. The irony is that few industries can match the feeder lines' growth. Flying every kind of short-haul traveler from weekend shoppers to city-hopping salesmen, the lines carried...
...Better routing, with Civil Aeronautics Board help, could then boost feeder traffic, although many lines will still need subsidies for years to come. Even so, few feeders can raise the cash to buy the Fokker. Of 35 firm F-27 orders, says Bonanza Air Lines' Executive Vice President G. Robert Henry, only nine have been completely financed. Fairchild has taken the remaining orders largely "on good faith." The feeders would also like to buy France's speedy (500 m.p.h.) Caravelle pure jet. But only San Diego's Pacific Southwest Airlines, with three Caravelles on order...