Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fashion comes out of its mid-winter lethargy every year about this time, and life on the fashion scene becomes gay and giddy to match the season. It's spring when fashion more or less let's you do what you want, and you can dress the role of the spritely gamine, or the innocent and demure little girl, or have the causal windblown air of the little boy. All that determines the choice is your mood...
Still Alive. Threepenny Opera's pedigree is two centuries old. Its original was The Beggar's Opera, John Gay's satire on the Italian operas of his day. Gay's comedy turned out to be the smash hit of the 18th century, so popular that it forced London's chief composer of Italian opera, George Frederick Handel, to shutter his own fashionable opera house and ultimately turn to writing oratorios. The Weill version took little but the characters from John Gay, was itself a satire on grandiose German operas. It so inflamed musical conservatives...
...word of the show is spoken ; it is all sung, with an effect less operatic than balladlike. Composer Moross' score creates a nice turn-of-the-century American atmosphere, has some pleasantly lyrical snatches and brightly mocking ditties. John Latouche's words are for the most part gay, ingenious and witty. There are weak spots. The show at times is a bit fancy, at others a bit cute; and the Iliad yields less rewarding home-town stuff than the Odyssey does hotcha...
...Gold! It's Gold!" Flaubert's simpletons are a Mutt & Jeff pair. François Denys Bartholomée Bouvard is fat and gay, Juste Romain Cyrille Pécuchet thin and dour. When they come into some money, they move to Normandy and become gentlemen-farmers, foreseeing "mountains of fruit, torrents of flowers, avalanches of vegetables." Pan and brush in hand, Pécuchet tramps the roads for fertilizer. When others contemptuously hold their noses, Bouvard cries, "But it's gold! It's gold!" Too much "gold" burns out the strawberry patch...
Died. Noel Gay (real name: Reginald Moxon Armitage), 55, popular British songwriter of the '30s best known for The Lambeth Walk, which became a favorite in England and the U.S. on the eve of World War II; of cancer; in London...