Word: maeterlinck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet and playwright, has little love for music. He once said that, so far as music was concerned, he was "like a blind man in a museum...
Last week M. Maeterlinck, now a white-haired, soft-faced, 78-year-old refugee in Manhattan, went to Philadelphia to hear an opera. As he entered the old Academy of Music, he said grimly: "I will sit through it to the end, no matter that I do not like it." The opera was Pelléas et Meélisande, music by Achille-Claude Debussy, drama by Maurice Maeterlinck. Although Pelléas was first performed nearly 40 years ago, its author had never sat through a production...
...Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money in a bank in Brussels. The Germans...
Something new, but still a fizzle is "The Blue-bird." Maeterlinck's famous story of how a little girl seeks happiness everywhere, only to find it at home, promised splendid entertainment. But Hollywood, as it too often does, relied exclusively on lavish sets and a stupendous budget. Far from winning the children's fancy, or charming adults with gentle humor, its extravagance only cloys, and bores--with the sole exception of the storm and forest fire scene...
...Metropolitan Opera "revived" Pelleas for the first time since 1935 (when Edward Johnson, now the Met's manager, sang it with Lucrezia Bori, now retired). For Pelléas, the Metropolitan had engaged a young (36), slim-legged, personable French tenor, Georges Cathelat, a friend of old (77) Maeterlinck who joined the Opera Comique in 1931. Today France's best Pelleas, Cathelat was released from his wartime job in the censor's office at the behest of U. S. Ambassador Bullitt...