Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just what authoress Jane Bowles is groping for in here trellisted summer house, a real Child's Garden of Freud, is difficult to imagine. Her characters are strays from the snake-pit, her dialogue is obscure, and the play is wildly incoherent. With cery strains from a vibra-harp introducing the scenes and occasionally backing the dialogue, the play is something for a Grenwich Village theatrein-the-round. Even in this setting, however, the play might be poorly received, since the obscurity seems hardly worth penetrating and often embarrassingly silly. In the Summer House, in fact, has many inadvertently funy...
...versatility of Burgin and his musicians made the potentially soggy score interesting from beginning to end. By deflating the rhetorical elements and stressing the more sincerely lyrical sections, Burgin kept the work moving steadily forward. The entire woodwind choir produced beautifully pure tones combined with accuracy and incisive intonation. Jane Rogers played the difficult first trumpet part with power and clarity; the last movement, virtually a concerto for brass instruments with percussion obligatto, gave her and her colleagues ample opportunities to display their talents...
...Calamity Jane (Warner) is a good picture to come in late on. In that way the moviegoer can hear a little amiable shouting by Doris Day and Howard Keel, soak up some pleasant Technicolor, and leave under the illusion that the yammering chaos of the plot is put in order by something he missed in the first reel...
...idea, apparently, was to send yet another dog after the scraps from Annie Get Your Gun's box-office banquet. Instead of Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, the lovers in this opus are Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok, together with such a subsidiary tangle of interlocking triangles that the audience may need a logarithm table to figure...
Competition for scripts for "Drumbeats and Song," Radcliffe's all-college production for the benefit of the Grant-In-Aid Fund, will close Nov. 20. Entrants must give the committee "a fairly definite ideas of the plot and several songs," according to Jane Flanders '55, chairman of the show...