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...Tenor Gerhard Stolze) staggering onstage before Designer Caspar Neher's abstract backdrop (it looked like a microphotograph of a germ culture) and raising his sightless eyes with a beatific smile. Soprano Varnay refused to watch from the wings because "I dream about such things." Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Moor: "For a non-German-speaking audience, this opera has long, boring stretches because the music is so subservient to the text. Nevertheless, Orff has created a theater work of gripping power...
Solitary Man. Moore himself has blazed a trail without raising an army of followers; he has created a style without founding a school. He stands alone, as solitary as his bronze image (see color) rising above a lonely Scottish moor, as unique as one of his strong and sweepingly molded figures of wood or stone, recognizable yet unfamiliar, warm yet discomfiting, partly abstract and groping for answers to the mystery: What...
...teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
...mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, be anchor prince in a four-hero Hamlet. Last week Baker stood...
...logistical feat worthy of Hannibal himself. Last week his rented Roman villa was stuffed with incoming crates. He planned to fly some of his airplanes down under their own power. His chief problem: how to man and sail his naval destroyer around Italy, and to find a place to moor it when it arrived...