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...amazingly likeable student songs and a scattering of cleverly parodying lines compensated for the spotty group work of dancing choruses and conditioning classes. Climax of the show was Lucia Snyder's "Wellesley Blues" sung with two demand encores by Carolyn Rochl. Quite as applaudable in a merrier tone were the theme "Talk of the Town" and "I Went to College." Dorothy Weaver, who wrote and sang "When Love Is in Your Heart," comes in for honorable mention. Running through Marjorie Wolfe's brainchild were the thin themes of The New Yorkers visiting the college to do a write...
...Ballet Theatre was doing the biggest business in its recent history and losing money hand over fist. Of its $30,000-a-week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used...
Josephus and the Emperor is sultry with wars, murders, double & triple- intrigues, early Christians, rape, weird religious rites, living burials and the intangible mood of desperation that pervaded late Roman society. There are memorable pictures of candidly dissolute Empress Lucia, who goes in for young intellectuals; of Norbanus, head of the secret police, who murders Domitian just before Domitian gets around to murdering him. There is Domitian himself, worrying about his place in history; tossing doles to the masses when he feels his popularity waning; plotting how to destroy the last liberties of the Senate. Against these monstrous Romans...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Scene 3, Act 3 (Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Arthur Kent, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Wilfred Pelletier; Victor; 4 sides). With gutbusting aplomb, the Metropolitan Opera's newest tenor handles the death soliloquies of Lucia's hero...