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...season whose musicomedies were resolutely undistinguished, musical drama -the one new form to establish itself on Broadway-strengthened its hold. Gian-Carlo Menotti's smash hit The Consul (along with The Cocktail Party] had every cocktail party in Manhattan buzzing. Marc Blitzstein's Regina died at the boxoffice, but it was very much alive on the stage...
...million musical bravos (with crescendo) on your wonderful Gian-Carlo Menotti cover story [TIME, May 1] . . . Now I have a better picture of the man who has given me many hours of enjoyment, mingled with pathos and sentiments...
...Other Pulitzer winners: Gian-Carlo Menotti, best music, in The Consul (TIME, May 1); South Pacific, best play; A. B. Guthrie, best novel, The Way West; Samuel Flagg Bemis, best biography, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; O. W. Larkin, best history, Art and Life in America; Gwendolyn Brooks, best poetry, Annie Allen; Seattle Times Reporter Edwin O. Guthman, best national reporting, in clearing a professor of Communist charges (TIME, Nov. 7); Christian Science Monitor Correspondent Edmund Stevens, best international reporting, on Russia; Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for public service in exposing...
...Leroy Barber, who does not speak Italian, recalls Gian-Carlo's first visit to their West Chester, Pa. home. They could only stare at each other when Sam was out of the room. Finally, when it became time to leave, Mrs. Barber recalls, Gian-Carlo shook her hand warmly and tried to explain: "I have many thinks but few words...
Faith In Faith. Since those days, Gian-Carlo has had both "many thinks" and many words. Not a few of them have gone into his operas. He put his concern with faith into The Medium; he was raised a Roman Catholic, and although he says he has lost his religious faith, "I have not lost faith in faith." In The Consul his thesis is "To this we've come; that men withhold the world from...