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...when Chopin wintered there with piano and Mistress George Sand, Majorca was a Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
...music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...
This dismay is understandable. The main island and nearby Moorea-James Michener's Bali Ha'i-comprise the classical setting of the unspoiled Polynesian dream: dazzling beaches, translucent water, rich landscapes with green-yellow vanilla patches. Living up to legend, the people are warm, easygoing, unobsessed with the failures of yesterday or the portents of tomorrow. (Though the women are shapely, they are not all beautiful; and most wear conventional clothing-more or less...
...FAIR LADY at the Shubert: Closes May 20. Evenings at 8:30. HA...
...FRIEND at the Bradford Hotel Roof Theatre: First Bos- ton engagement of Sandy Wilson's spoof on the Twenties, Pre-curtain dinner and dancing plus dancing after the show. Eves. at 8:40. HA...