Word: maestro
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...most occasions must be rather grisly affairs to find these tales sympathetic. Of them Translator Samuel Putnam writes: "Here were no tragedies of the adamant will in self-ruinous conflict with an ineluctable Fate. Here, rather, was a disheartened and disheartening abandonment to the stream of an ignoble destiny." Maestro Pirandello considers Europe "senile, full of animated corpses." He writes of its brownstone-fronted society as if he smelled a rat, as if the rat had been dead a considerable length of time...
...Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque. "Horse in the Moon" silhouets a bridegroom, apoplectic with lust, and the head of a dying horse against a copper moon. The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that...
...Frida Leider carried a Chicago audience reverently through Wagner's famed Temptation Scene wherein Parsifal, purest of fools, resists and reforms her. No one denied that Frida Leider had able assistance from a good cast that included René Maison as Parsifal and Alexander Kipnis as Gurnemanz. from Maestro Egon Pollak's orchestra, from a reverent audience that had bought every one of the 75?-$4 seats.* But so well did she sing & act that most of those who saw & heard her were far more interested in Kundry's screaming, crawling, writhing, seducing, sobbing than...
Playwright Finletter, daughter of NBC's Maestro Walter Johannes Damrosch, does not get squared off until the end of Act II. From then on The Passing Present, assisted by pats on the shoulder from Actress Williams, is not unaffecting drama...
...Good Fairy. After samples of how inept Viennese comedy can be (I Love An Actress, A Church Mouse), the season has at last afforded the genuine article by the maestro who holds the controlling interest in that branch of contemporary drama -Ferenc Molnar...