Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare and show business divide the burden in Kiss Me, Kate, which has to do with the out-of-town opening of a production of The Taming of the Shrew. The pair who play Katharine and Petruchio were once stormily married and are still snarlingly in love, and the cuffing and spitting in their performances are more intense than Shakespeare's script requires. With a sharp eye, Kiss Me, Kate kids Shakespeare and show business impartially; and whenever the taming threatens to become too tame, out pops a dancer or up strikes the band...
...Kate is Cole Porter's score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming...
Meanwhile in Riviera this week, Ben Hogan was working methodically at bringing himself up to tournament pitch. He stared out ecstatically at Hogan's Alley, soggy with the heavy rains of the past two weeks, at the pitted greens. "I love the competition," he said. "I hope I'm not at the top of my game; I hope I'm getting better...
Amsterdam, he found his opponents well aware of two dimensions-"the contrasts of good and evil, freedom and necessity, love and self-centredness, spirit and matter, person and mechanism, progress and stagnation-and in this sense, God and the world or God and man. Who would deny that these are important categories? I am not unaware that . . . within this framework . . . [is] more profound thinking . . . than there was a decade...
...17th Century, profited from the fur trade, drove the English out of Hudson's Bay, intrigued at the French court and created New Orleans. It is also a tears-and-sugar romance about Félicité and Philippe, humble hangers-on of the Le Moyne household whose love is frustrated by French colonial policy...