Word: gingold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baton six years ago on one condition: his board of directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year: $110,000), the orchestra's economic position is also...
...hoped that Mr. Goodman, when he grows up, will show his devotion to the ideals of a free world by actions more positive and useful, though possibly not quite as hair-raising. Kurt Gingold...
...material in "It's About Time" is partly new and partly culled from three of Miss Gingold's London revues...
...sketches have a slight English music-hall tang, but only occasionally do they seem a little wheezy. There are two excellent parodies in "It's About Time." "I and the King" aims some expert barbs at the more ludicrous elements in the current Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play. Miss Gingold, wearing a red wig, burlesques Gertrude Lawrence as Anna in two songs. Two lines from these songs might be quoted: "It's a beautiful morning in Bangkok--B-A-N-G-K--O K!" and "People will say we are us!" The other parody is a conglomeration of Menotti...
...dancers Vera Lee and Peter Hamilton. Robert Fletcher's costumes and Miles Morgan's lighting are excellent, although Robert O'Hearn's set seem a little hasty. On the whole, "It's About Time" is a revue with lots of gusto and good, low, comedy. It, and Miss Gingold, deserve the hearty welcome that they are bound...