Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luck & Coordination. In a way, the Sadler's Wells company was blessed with luck. It had arrived in Manhattan at a time when the theater was at its lowest ebb since the war. The hits of last fortnight, Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, and the Lunts in I Know My Love (see THEATER) had not yet opened. Sadler's Wells was the first smash of the 1949-50 entertainment season...
Lost In the Stars (words by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...
Three unidentified men attacked Kurt S. Levy 1G last night at 11:45 in Cambridge Common and robbed him of five dollars in cash, a gold watch and a gold and silver bracelet in the first Square robbery since last spring's observatory thefts...
...lobby of New York's famous Music Box theater, when the new Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musical play, Lost in the Stars, opens on Oct. 30, theatergoers will see an unusual exhibit of paintings. Its presence there is due to a dramatic coincidence-involving a story that appeared in TIME'S Art department on Aug. 8, and an art-loving TIME-reader, Miss Elizabeth Winston, who read the story in TIME'S Atlantic Edition while on her vacation in Paris...