Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because a giant had stolen their inheritance (a bag of gold, a hen which laid golden eggs on command, a magical harp) Jack and his mother had to live in a hovel, had finally to resort to selling their faithful cow. A lesser cow would have ambled placidly off to the butcher but the Erskine cow, like the Erskine Helen, had spirit...
...sold for the handful of beans which an old witch claimed would return Jack's father's treasures. Fairy beanstalks need no nurturing so it took only a second for one to spring out of the Juilliard stage, for Jack to go shinnying up and find the giant's castle. Then & there the wise cow would have appraised the swaggering giant at his worth, for although he looked fierce storming about and devouring whole roasts of meat, he was more his real self when singing in a silly, spindling falsetto...
...Jack was human and properly awed by appearances. He waited until the giant was asleep to steal the gold and the hen which spilled forth eggs before the audience's very eyes. He used more wit to get the harp, coaxed the giant into making it play some of Gruenberg's jazz, a love song which made the giant fairly maudlin, a lullaby which did the trick. Down the beanstalk scuttled Jack followed by the giant who, being only rubber and hot air, burst and fell in a deflated mass. The witch by this time was a beautiful...
...great opera houses. The production, in its slight way, perfectly expressed the satirical charm of the libretto. The singers, all promising Juilliard students, had been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should. The cow's big scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren...
Baldwin Says "No" His beanstalk having sprouted, Jack-the-Premier had to cope with the Giant-or, as Cartoonist Callan of the Vancouver Sun aptly put it, with the Giantess...