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Borrowing from his one-act play, Orpheus (1926) and his surrealist film, Blood of a Poet (1933), Jack-of-All-Arts Cocteau has written and directed a modern version of the legend in which Orpheus charms the gods into returning his dead wife, Eurydice, to life. As Cocteau has it, Orpheus (Jean Marais) is a celebrated poet and national hero who falls in love with a satellite of death in the shape of a beautiful princess (Maria Casares). The princess covets Orpheus, takes Eurydice (Maria Dea) before her time. Confused by his love for both women, the poet journeys...
...result was a one-act opera as stylish, Steinish, charming and listenable as any summer audience could want to hear. Composer Kupferman had picked Author Stein's In a Garden (from The First Reader & Three Plays) for the libretto of his first opera. The story was sweet and simple-and so was the artfully naive music that went with it. A little girl (pertly played and sung by pretty 21-year-old Soprano Sylvia Stahlman) plays she is a queen...
...Sandburg poem, Prairie, was the inspiration for a cantata by Foss which won him a citation from the New York Music Critics Circle in 1944. The Mark Twain story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, became the basis for a one-act opera which was produced last week by Manhattan's new After Dinner Opera Co. It was just about the livest and jumpin'est opera yet turned out by a young composer...
...first play by London's zooming Christopher Fry to reach Broadway made news twice last week: first because it opened, then because it closed. A Phoenix Too Frequent was a poor choice for a debut: from the briefest of short stories, Fry had made a very long one-act play. The wit and poetry that glow brightly in his The Lady's Not For Burning (TIME, April 24) merely glint and flicker in Phoenix. But on Broadway Phoenix was as much victim as culprit: it was badly produced, and had to share the billing with something very...
Radcliffe's Freshman Weekend activities get underway this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. when the Class of '53 takes its senior sisters to Agassiz Theater to see "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" and "The Pot Boilers," two one-act plays produced by the freshmen. During the intermission, tea will be served from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. in the Agassiz living room...