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...easy to be an artist, because nothing else paid anything either. Lindner started off as a concert pianist, but in 1922 he cheated his way into an art academy by submitting a friend's sketches, and began his life's work. As a Jew and a Social Democrat, Lindner knew in 1933 that the rise of Hitler was a reason to flee. He arrived in the U.S. in 1941, began working as a magazine illustrator, did not get back to creative painting until...
...Corriere Delia Sera's man, giving Lane, at least, new reason to ponder her expatriate career. "Every two-bit American singe'r who has appeared in Europe has been engaged by the Met," she said. "I have a voice, experience, a reputation, and I'm a Jew. What more do they want...
...German Jew who settled in Paris as a ten-year-old cello prodigy and later studied composition with Cherubini, Offenbach churned out musiquettes galore for his beloved Bouffes-Parisiens. The two works that Darmstadt saw, The Transformed Cat and Daphnis and Chloe, are quintessential Offenbach. One, resembling a Freudian treatment of La Fontaine, tells of a cat's metamorphosis into a woman of feline charm who turns at night into a rooftop mehitabel; the other shows Pan thwarted in a sneaky attempt to teach Chloe the art of love-and ends with a riproaring, garter-snapping cancan. The ideal...
...snarling vengeance ("Damn'd Christians, dogs, and Turkish Infidels,") echoes across the stage. Having avoided the serious side of Barabas' treachery until the end, however, Gitter's curse suffers from its incongruity. The audience, which previously jumped at every funny line in the play, seems perplexed by the Jew's sudden viciousness...
...rest of the cast, as well as Schmidt's direction and David Levine's lighting, is equally as deft. David Rittenhouse, playing Ferneze, the Governor of Malta, and Francis Gitter as the Jew's daughter, display a remarkable intensity in their more straight-forward roles. Charles Degelman, who plays the scheming Turkish slave Ithamore, could have looked evil just by raising his eyebrows and shifting his huge jaw into a sneer. Only Neal Johnston as Pilia-borza seemed amateurish, but that was as much due to his Ralph Guglielmi accent as to his performance...