Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobel Prizewinner Martin du Card asked scornfully: "The Academy? What's that...
...bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Lute Song tells of Tsai-Yong (Yul Brynner), a provincial young student who leaves his wife (Mary Martin) and parents to make his mark in the world. He becomes a famous magistrate, is forced to marry an autocratic prince's daughter, is forbidden to communicate with his family. His parents die, cursing him, during a famine, but his wife remains staunchly faithful. She is at last reunited with Tsai-Yong by the princess, and remains in the palace as No. 1 wife...
...tremendously enhance the movement as well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances, a captivating Imperial March. The best of Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made her famous, is attractive and scrupulously unself-indulgent in a role that leaves her, like Lute Song itself, a little lifeless...
Sublime Music. To the press Stokie muttered, "boycott." Then he scurried to Cuba's bewildered President Ramon Grau San Martin, who assigned his secretary to act as mediator. Barked Stokowski: "The man has not yet been born who can dictate...