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...Richard Nash, a major Broadway playwright, has fashioned an excellent screenplay, remarkably faithful to DuBose Heyward's libretto. And Oliver Smith has captured the flavor of Catfish Row in an authentic-looking, yet properly stylized set. The color, the lighting, Irene Sharaff's costumes--all beautiful. Andre Previn (winner of last year's Academy Award for his work on Gigi) did the arrangements, which bring a new fullness to the Gershwin score. They are lush in the best Hollywood tradition, but never maudlin...
...some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something of a nice Nellie out of bad Bess...
...TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort of amiable condescension toward the "darkies" that used to pass for progressiveness in the South. What really matters in the show is George Gershwin's music; some of it, particularly the recitative, is banal, but half a dozen tunes are as good as any Gershwin...
...VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court, in which were trained not only centuries of English jurists but also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca; and finally the sweeping green of Runnymede Meadow, 20 miles west of London, where the embattled barons prevailed upon King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will...
Died. Ralph Heyward Isham, 64, retired businessman, collector of rare manuscripts, including the Boswell papers, which were acclaimed by scholars as the greatest literary find of the century; after long illness; in Manhattan. In 1927, two years after the supposedly destroyed Boswell papers had been found by Yale's Professor Chauncey Tinker at Malahide Castle in Ireland, Isham bought his first lot of the papers, found and bought five other lots in the next 23 years, sold the entire collection to Yale...