Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ring Round the Moon (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Christopher Fry; produced by Gilbert Miller) is as French as a duel in the Bois, and as airy and evanescent as skywriting. A "charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...
Slender, brown-haired Jean, 23, had made a respectable splash in music with tours of both Europe and the U.S. In Paris last summer, father, mother & son had a preliminary skirmish with the D Minor Concerto on rented pianos. Later, with father & son off on tours, they practiced separately. Home in Princeton a month ago, they knuckled down on the three pianos in their living room...
...Thanksgiving Day, a Carnegie Hall audience heard the result of all the planning and practice. Conductor Mitropoulos took the podium, in front of the Philharmonic's strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...
Trio. Somerset Maugham escorts three more of his short stories to the screen; with Jean Simmons, James Hayter, Nigel Patrick (TIME...