Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Haydn: Concerto in D Major, Op. 21, for Piano and Orchestra (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, M. F. Gaillard conducting, with Marguerite Roesgen-Champion; Columbia: 4 sides). Earlier vintage Haydn, with less body but plenty of sparkle. Pianist Roesgen-Champion serves it properly: at room temperature...
...face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name: M...
...last week the D'Oyly Carters had given, at least once, every opera in their current repertory. Each production (The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, The Mikado, Iolanthe, H. M. S. Pinafore, Cox and Box, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard, Patience) was velvety and letter-perfect as ever. To the irreverent, there might be something a trifle ritualistic about the performances, as though the matter in hand were sacred music rather than light opera; but the devout could only praise Heaven that nothing had been changed, that not a single present-day allusion had been adlibbed...
...Ground Hog (Fri. 12:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) has his annual coming-out party reviewed and interpreted by Howard Zahniser, U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey...
Helen Hayes, Orson Welles (Fri. 9:00 p. m. CBS) in Campbell Soup's version of Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith...