Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing his nose at Hitler...
Blithe Spirit. Noel Coward's gay farce of how a first wife's ghost cooks a second wife's goose (TIME...
Married. Leonora Corbett, 34, British actress, willowy ghost of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit; and John Francis Royal, 56, NBC's burly, explosive vice president in charge of international broadcasting; she for the first time, he for the second (his first wife died in January); in Manhattan. She came here from England after nearly a year of driving a mobile canteen through bombed areas, scored a personal triumph in her first U.S. appearance. Her make-up in Blithe Spirit: dead grey, from head to foot...
Nehru & Gandhi. There are some who believe that if Nehru had not played Hamlet to Gandhi's ghost, a compromise might have been effected before the latest call for civil disobedience. But past attempts by Nehru to enlist the services of the United Nations for a solution have ended in blind alleys...
Tragedy, love, passion, characterization, sentimentality, were taboo; "scale and violence" were all that most of the native plays had, and about all that were left of foreign plays, once they were adapted. "Hamlet was played for the murder, the ghost, the burial; Macbeth for the witches, the sleepwalking scene, the knocking at the gate." Some plays "were hardly plays at all but omnibus inclusions of the latest news, the latest partisan arguments." The drama was half operatic, exceedingly oratorical, and stagy oratory was perhaps the greatest and most popular of the arts...