Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lehmann pinned his hopes to two monster new productions: Rameau's forgotten Les Indes Galantes and Weber's beautiful but silly Oberon. "I wanted to give people plenty to look at," he says. "Les Indes has a shipwreck with thunder and lightning. In Oberon, cities appear by magic and goddesses are wafted to the clouds." Last week, the Paris public and press were devouring the new Oberon like happy children with ice cream cones...
...Catch. A jamproof slide fastener will be put on the market by Talon, Inc. It has a pushbutton "Magic Tab" that opens the fastener's jaws to clear snagged threads or other obstructions...
...evocative incidental music suggests a tale better adapted to opera or ballet. For, however ironic and sophisticated, Giraudoux has not brought a new dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician but the court confectioner...
...Beautiful Sea, however, she is not given enough to do. As a result, memorable and magic though she is, Miss Booth almost has the show snatched away from her. Mae Barnes comes on stage to sing two of the show's best tunes, "Happy Habit" and "Hang Up," and she can't get off. If the Boston reception is an accurate barometer, lyricist Dorothy Fields better work out some original encores, because Miss Barnes is called back and back and back. Looking like an ample Earth Kitt, she throws her whole being and all her talent into the numbers...
...view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble outside and mockingly call for Mother Oppenheim to rescue her daughter's virtue. When Marguerite has accidentally poisoned her mother (as in Goethe), Faust orders the Devil to rescue her. Only then is he forced to sell his soul...