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When the plain facts are not sufficient for the purposes of mass entertainment, Wilder is not averse to dressing them up in high commercial style. He supplies plenty of hee-haw at the suspender-salesman and apoplectic-captain level, a musky little whiff of romance on the eve of the flight, a couple of near crashes that never really were, and a streak of sentimental, pseudo-religious superstition, involving a St. Christopher medal...
George Carens, of the Traveler, claimed "sampling reaction leads me to the conclusion that Harvard graduates are eternal optimists. There is general unanimity that the sons of Jawn Haw-vud are facing their greatest opportunity in years to pull themselves up by the boot-straps...
Died. Frederick Henry ("Derek") Curtis-Bennett, 52, pudgy, bespectacled defense counsel for some of Britain's most notorious lawbreakers, among them: Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, Multiple Murderer John Christie. Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs; of acute alcoholism, less than three months after the suicide of his pretty, 26-year-old second wife; in London...
...lyrical style which has kept it alive in repertory as an authentic domestic classic. For his fourth opera, premiered last week at the legend-laden Opera House in Central City, Colo., Composer Moore once again mined some rich native lore: the story of Colorado Silver Millionaire Horace Austin Warner ("HAW") Tabor and his blonde bride from Wisconsin, Elizabeth McCourt ("Baby") Doe. The opera's title: The Ballad of Baby...
...This dramatic story," says Composer Moore, "makes an ideal outline for an opera libretto." He is right. Born in Vermont in 1830, HAW Tabor caught the gold fever early, wandered with his wife Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor...