Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capp was bewildered. He had used Li'l Abner to burlesque many a book and play. He had parodied Romeo &Juliet,and William Shakespeare had not turned a hair...
...large poetical vocabulary and ready, colorful imagination, easily capable of creating anything from a magic island to the moonlit garden of the Capulets without any more aid than the word of the actors. Such an audience rendered beautiful and compelling the original bare-staged presentation of "Romeo and Juliet" and would make completely unnecessary the ponderous and expensively over-whelming production last given the play in this country by Laurence Olivier...
...scene that has done most to enhance Diana's Barrymore reputation was the balcony scene from Romeo & Juliet which she played with her father last winter on Rudy Vallee's radio program. During rehearsals she uttered girlish spontaneities like "I'm so warm I'd like to rip this dress right down to the navel." But on the air she was a luminously sensitive Juliet. Ogling his daughter fondly in his dressing room afterwards, Old John cried: "You can bet the whole damn family was listening in and proud...
...surmised would be "a kind of phony beauty which would be nice." Surmiser John Barrymore was right. For five minutes, 35 seconds, seated at his special mike, leaning his tired head on his fingers and forgetting to ham it, he played Romeo to his blooming daughter Diana's Juliet. He had coached her for a week and she was good. In the brief respite from radio routine, everyone felt the bond between father and daughter, the oddity of the old love poetry, the Shakespearean depths of grace...
...head, the strains of "Moon-Love" or "Concerto for Two" crupting from every juke-box in the country, and a superior order of intellectuals debating the problem in higher epistolary fashion, I can only reiterate the main conclusions I came to then: that in my opinion the "Romco and Juliet" fantasy and the last three symphonies are great music, that the two concertos are not, that most of the ballets and tone-poems are second-rate, and that the words "superficial" and "over-sentimental" do not so much describe Tchaikowski's music as the way it is usually played...