Word: grand
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...through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could possibly make of it. Here and there the music suggests images of human activity. Fanfares sound: Are they bugle calls for some grand but ragged army? A truncated funeral march is heard: Is a man or an age being mourned? A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked? A saraband starts up, accompanied by a simulated harpsichord: Are the ghosts of vanished dancers being recalled...
Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
...life to one grand purpose till he dies...
...death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying. This week Gramps got a tasteful TV funeral and such sponsor-selected eulogies as "Gramps's gone. Everybody loved him," and "He was a grand old man." And Timmy was allowed to get on his knees again to beg God to "take good care of Gramps in heaven." At his side, whimpering mournfully, sat Lassie,* a middle-aged pro of five, still willing to nuzzle through another few lucrative years on TV for the tots...
Died. Prince George of Greece, 88, handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France...