Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star in Gian-Carlo Menotti's eerie chamber opera, The Medium. When Menotti's modest opera was first tried out last season it got warm but not glowing reviews (TIME, May 20, 1946). On a gamble, its composer put it on Broadway in May of this year, hoped it would run two weeks. It has been running ever since, and last week, for the third time, its run was extended. Marie's portrayal of the opera's title character has had a lot to do with The Medium's success. She is by no means...
...band literature, adapted its score for the 56 instruments in the Goldman Band. Said he: "Few, if any, bands today could manage to produce the eight bassoons which Berlioz desired." Goldman substituted saxophones for some of the bassoons, eliminated the strings but kept the chorus. Even played in more modest proportions, Berlioz' big work sounded both noisy and exultant...
Notably absent from the celebration was rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...
...place where Lazareff dips an end-chewed pen. His France-Dimanche, a sexy-sensational weekly, hits 400,000 circulation. He has a weekly sports Record, (circ. 180,000), something for the kiddies called France Soir-Jeudi, a slick monthly, Réalités, which he calls "a very modest FORTUNE," and a syndicate called Scoop, which sells France-Soir's features to the hinterland. His wife, Héléne Gordon Lazareff, who trained on the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar, now edits Elle, a Parisian women's weekly magazine with New Yorkerish...
William Bowers' dialogue is conventional in the "crisp" manner, but it is also amusing, highly efficient and skillfully delivered. Sample: O'Brien's modest description of his poverty. He used to have to save up to weigh himself...