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...More a purist than a tourist mecca, the festival has nonetheless lured nearly 1,000,000 theatergoers, for a box-office gross of $3,000,000. Much of Ontario's pulling power has stemmed from Tyrone Guthrie, perhaps the ablest living Shakespeare director, who likes to take a lesser-known play and tilt it like a kaleidoscope until the characters tumble into new and exciting shapes. Ontario will lead off its season this week with a Byzantine-styled King John, followed by Romeo and Juliet with Julie Harris, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ¶ Stratford, Conn...
...conductor of vaudeville-pit orchestras, who in 1922 collaborated to turn the cry of a Long Island Greek fruit peddler, "Yes! We have no bananas," into a song worth nearly $70,000-most of which he lost in the 1929 stock-market crash, and failed to recover in 75 lesser-known pop works, -such as Icy-Wicky-Woo and What Do We Get From Boston? Beans, Beans, Beans; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn...
Dozens of lesser-known names are just as worthy of investigation. North Carolina's Davidson College has twelve Rhodes scholarships to its credit, and plenty of new money (TIME, Dec. 21). Ohio's Marietta ranks eleventh (with Antioch) in the U.S. in production of prominent men scientists. Ohio's College of Wooster produced the famed scientist brothers Compton (Wilson, Karl, Arthur). And Lawrence College in northern Wisconsin is a hatchery of university presidents. One former teacher, Victor L. Butterfield, heads Connecticut's topnotch Wesleyan. One former president, Henry M. Wriston, later took over Brown. A successor...
...great lesser-known works of choral literature is the Requiem of Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...
California: The G.O.P. civil war promises Democratic victory: latest polls show once-popular liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, trailing considerably behind his Senate opponent, lesser-known northern California Congressman Clair Engle, 47, right-wing Democrat...