Word: marred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jennie, with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, is based on the career of Actress Laurette Tay lor. As the young Laurette, Mary Mar tin puts on one of her best and funniest performances, and Laurette's barnstorming early appearances in all manner of creaking melodramas are made-to-order for Mary's comic talents. She plays a frontier mother rescuing her child from a grizzly bear, warbles a ditty from a torture wheel, and as a harem wife be wails...
...addition, some technical weaknesses mar the production. The stage in the Ullman Amphitheater is huge, and its full breadth is utilized in the opening scene on the streets of New York. Even though the important action takes place on center stage, it is hazy and unfocussed in the the midst of the expansive platform. Further, director Thomas Hill has slowed down several sequences, seeking a tension that never quite builds...
...Masculine Passions." Alas, the soldiers had a point. Installed as President 20 months ago (after a coup against erratic President José María Velasco Ibarra), Arosemena came from an aristocratic family of bankers and landowners. His father was Acting President from 1947 to 1948. He himself had been elected Vice President in 1960, was known as an intelligent, reform-minded individualist. But he was also well known as a powerful man with a bottle-and in office the binges seemed to have grown more frequent. For days at a time, he failed to show up at his office...
William Hickling Prescott never visited Spain. Friends tried to lure him there during his many tours of Europe, and so did the Spanish government. But Prescott had a Spain in his mind, and he wanted nothing to mar that image. Prescott's Spain was a darkly dramatic land, and he populated it with villains of incredible baseness and heroes of astounding virtue. In so doing he became one of the most famous American historians of the 19th century...
...Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican people...