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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical performance itself, as everybody agreed, was first-rate. Guided by Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, Principals Lisa Delia Casa, Cesare Siepi, Mildred Miller and Regina Resnik sang with the security and style that comes from long experience. Of the two singers making their debut, Finnish Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with...
...Empty Jar. Gnostic thought existed long before Christ, but it adapted itself so well to Christianity that the subtlest and toughest Christian minds worked overtime to combat its combination of mystery, myth and spiritual snob appeal. When orthodox Christianity triumphed at last, the writings of the Gnostics were suppressed so thoroughly that most present-day knowledge of Gnosticism relies on the anti-Gnostic polemics of the fathers. The Thomas Gospel will widen knowledge-and speculation-about Gnostic doctrine...
...ones believes no more in the omnipotent, but in us," he says. "And for this we mnst show what we can do. First, a piece of meat in the soup, good clothes for winter, then-radio, electricity, books, movies. Against this, Mister God can't hold out long...
...last year's campus craze for stuffing people into telephone booths, the University of Arkansas last week added a saner fad: "hunkerin." It means squatting on the balls of the feet for a long time (hunkers is Scottish for haunches). The fad grew out of a chair shortage in a fraternity house at Arkansas, whose students had watched their Ozark daddies squatting and whittling at crossroads stores. Hunkerers always hunker together, and girl hunkerers are perfectly eligible. Sophisticates hunker flatfooted. Real progressives hunker with elbows inside the knees, though this is difficult while "hunkerin' and hookin' " (squatting...
...racy moments are disarming." ¶ Saratoga has been dressed up by Designer Cecil Beaton, but Morton DaCosta's musical version of Edna Ferber's Saratoga Trunk does not yet live up to its magnificent settings. With a $1,500,000 advance sale, Saratoga is sure of a long Broadway run, but Harold Arlen's music needs all the help it can get from Singer Carol (West Side Story) Lawrence and Howard (Kiss Me Kate) Keel. The 19th century high jinks between a New Orleans mulatto and a Montana buccaneer bent on robbing some robber barons is "rich...