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...plot, borrowed partly from a one-act play by Ferenc Molnar and partly from a Wilder-Brackett-Lubitsch movie called Ninotchka (1939), is almost as intricate as the famous secret recipe for Coca-Cola-a beverage that, incidentally, benefits in this film from 108 minutes of effervescent and unmitigated schlock. The hero (James Cagney), who heads up the Coca-Cola operation in West Berlin, dreams of a deal with Moscow's Soft Drink Secretariat that will 1) insinuate the pause that refreshes into the Communist way of life, and 2) install him in London as chief of European operations...
After three years devoted to his avowed magnum opus-a double cycle of 14 one-act plays-Author Thornton (Our Town) Wilder, 64, delivered a progress report. The new plays, he said, dealt only in universals-"I am not interested in such ephemeral subjects as the adulteries of dentists"-and three of them, entitled Infancy, Childhood and Someone from Assisi, would open off Broadway next month. As for the remaining eleven, said Wilder, "some are on the stove, some are in the oven, and some are in the wastebasket." When all 14 were finally fully baked, then what? "After...
When Strauss's shocker, with its violent, passionate score and its scenes of perverted eroticism, first burst on the public consciousness in 1905, it scared the censors out of their frock coats and orchestras half out of their pits. The one-act opera was banned in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York. Even Soprano Marie Wittich, who appeared in the title role at the world premiere in Dresden, threatened for a time to withdraw because "I am a decent woman...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA SOCIETY will present the second performance of RIDERS TO THE SEA by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an adaptation of the one-act play by J.M. Synge, Ronald C. Perera '63 and David S. Cole '63, directors. G.B.S.'s MAN OF DESTINY will appear on the same program. Dining Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $3.00, $2.25 and $1.50. At the Coop; reservations may be made by calling KI 7 - 7569. Through Sunday...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA SOCIETY will present RIDERS TO THE SEA by Ralph Vaughan Williams, an adaptation of the one-act play by J.M. Synge. Ronald C. Perera '63 and David S. Cole '63, directors. G.B.S. MAN OF DESTINY will appear on the same program. Dining Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $3.00, $2.25 and $1.50. At the Coop; reservations may be made by calling KI 7 - 7569. Through Sunday