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...that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe, The Gold Bug and The Three Musketeers...
...particularly in view of the fact that for some months-past she has been in Bermuda, where she still is, with her husband, the scenic designer, who is designing the first legitimate theater on the island. Throck may be burning the midnight oil and smoking big, black cigars, but Juliet, never...
...stage was a program fit for a king: Destinn singing arias from Aïda, and Melba arias from Romeo and Juliet; Tetrazzini and John McCormack in a duet from The Barber of Seville. Then came the evening's climax: the much-bruited new Russian ballet, whose 21-year-old star, Vaslav Nijinsky, had all Europe abuzz with the grace of his dancing and the power of his leaps. That night, London's applause was added to the Continent...
Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet Excerpts (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Berlioz' Romeo & Juliet is the kind of music that in lesser hands can sound merely bombastic; Toscanini gives it the care and excitement it deserves. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
John van Druten had his first stage success (Young Woodley, 1925) when he was 24. Since then, he has rarely been without a hit-if not in London, then in New York. His biggest: There's Always Juliet (1931), Old Acquaintance (1940), and The Voice of the Turtle...