Word: heidelberger
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...JOSEPHSON Heidelberg, Germany...
...sprawling list of characters to a manageable 13, set to work composing a score to match the author's farcical tale of a provincial town paralyzed by the news that a civil-service inspector is on the way to investigate its lace-curtain vices. The Schwetzingen Festival (near Heidelberg) gave Composer Egk a handsome, cartoon-style production (by noted Stage Director Gunther Rennert), with the opera's townspeople outlandishly garbed in a mid-19th century assortment of green swallow-tailed coats, crimson velvet caps and propeller-sized bow ties. As the townspeople press money and the favors...
...character of Harras (played with full vibrato by Actor Jürgens, a sort of John Wayne with Heidelberg trimmings) is a highly romantic one-rather like a combination of Siegfried and Graf Bobby*-and his fiery death is stirringly Wagnerian. But from U.S. moviegoers the hero will probably get no better than pity, and the picture itself, apart from the high praise it deserves as a piece of cinematic craftsmanship, will inevitably inspire a more negative emotion. As the hero himself expresses it: "I can't eat as much as I want to vomit...
...produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany...
...book and lyrics are a travesty, the actors are talented, and courageous. In the double role of the pedant Dr. Pangloss ("thrice graduated from Heidelberg"), and the pessimist Martin, Max Adrian has the play's best, and worst, lines. Confronting his roles with a scraggly singing voice and an enormous confidence, he is the star of the show. In the more innocuous part of Candide, Robert Rounseville acts stiffly but has a powerful and accurate singing voice. Barbara Cook as Cunegonde is an appealing actress with a good voice, and stops the show with one number, "Glitter...