Word: juliets
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...under the wornout banner of "giving the other fellow a chance," or "Becthoven and Brahms were never appreciated by their contemporaries, either." The program of January 23, for instance, consisted of the two last works mentioned, plus Hindemith's "Nobilissina Visione" Concert Suite, and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet." When works of unquestionable fibre have been given, they have often been thrown, together indiscriminately, as witnessed by another program which boasted of nothing but modern French music by Milhaud, Debussy and Ravel, enough to tire even the most ardent admirer of musical delicacy and impressionism. To date there...
...poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances. He waited two months after the performance of Shostakovitch's fan-fared Seventh to turn out one of the most magnificently scathing reviews in the history of American criticism, but when Toscanini last fall revived the music to "Romeo and Juliet" by Berlioz, who is generally considered a rather seedy romantic, he glowed with extravagant good feeling...
...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...