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...narrow the overwhelmingly abstract field, the three-man jury, composed of the directors of the national museums of France and Belgium and Yugoslav Painter Marko Celebonovic, studied and argued for a heated five hours. Then the jury announced the winner: Ben Nicholson's August 1956-Val d'Orcia...
...more of Damon Runyon's guys & dolls to music.* This tuned-up version of the old (1935) Runyon-Howard Lindsay comedy, A Slight Case of Murder, filmed for the first time in 1938 with Edward G. Robinson, still has as its setting the Saratoga mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year-old orphan with a squirt gun (Louis Lettieri...
...title role, Rosenstock borrowed Baritone Marko Rothmuller, a onetime Berg pupil, from London's Covent Garden (from which he also borrowed the English translation). Rothmuller was a sympathetic character as the cloddish, hallucinated soldier, but vocally he turned out to be a bellower. Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway was miscast as Marie: she was more of a heart-wringing Tosca than the faithless tart she was supposed to be, and she screeched in her attempt to be heard over the orchestra...
...Krebiozen is no ordinary drug. It is a secret concoction from the blood of horses, made after the animals have been given a secret "stimulator." The maker of Krebiozen was an emigrè Yugoslav researcher named Stevan Durovic, who worked with the financial backing of his rich brother Marko. The Durovics were in the U.S. on visitors' visas which were about to expire. They were threatening to finish their work abroad, slap Krebiozen on the market...
...crop of good solo voices, Marko Rothmuller, as Jesus, sang with a dignity and dramatic awareness occasionally spoiled by a bovine tone. David Lloyd's tenor was magnificent in the part of the Evangelist, and Adele Addison's soprano had an exquisitely pure tone...