Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operetta master, Franz Lehar, who had lifelong pretensions to grand opera. First produced at the Vienna State Opera in 1934 when Lehar was 63, the work has to do with a Carmen-like doxy in an unidentified southern fishing town who heaps misery on herself and her one true love. The gaudily exotic score boasts some sweetly melting arias, and the performance (with Hilde Gueden and Waldemar Kmentt as principals) is expert, but for the most part Giuditta is not much more than a barefoot Merry Widow...
...mere social concepts either. He is totally unconcerned with what kind of figure he cuts in the arena. His qualities are personal, and they come out of suffering. A face is only interesting when it reveals that it has experienced something, that it has been shaped by life and love. So with a painting. If it reveals only a chic, decorative exuberance, or only taste and elegance, its interest will be ephemeral...
Died. Isaac Halevi Herzog, 71, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, who served 21 years as a rabbi in Ireland (Chief Rabbi: 1925-36), where he acquired a slight brogue and a love of things Irish, was elected (1936) Palestine's Chief Rabbi from which post he worked for the creation of Israel and sustained the morale of his people during the dark days of the Arab war, wrote a five-volume study: The Main Institutions of Jewish Law; in Jerusalem...
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Spoken Word, 3 LPs) gets a fine new production by the players of the Dublin Gate Theatre, with Michael MacLiammoir as Malvolio, "sick of self-love," posturing his priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half...
...Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness...