Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle. The crown jewels are stolen. Clarendon grabs the throne. London burns. The feminine plebs, weary of the Duke of Clarendon's despotism, picket him with ribald signs: Unfair to Organized Love; We Want Charles; Want Him BAD. Charles is restored and the "semi-opera" ends with the cast singing, as usual, Old Nassau...
With Saul Lancourt, former assistant director of the Chautauqua Opera Association, as production manager, and with professional adult actors, dancers and singers, Junior Programs this season is producing two operas, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bumble Bee Prince; two ballets with accompanying narrative, Pinocchio and The Princess and the Swineherd, written for this project; one play, The Reward of the Sun God, by John Louw Nelson. Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians. By far the most popular are the ballets...
...companies play an average of five times a week, frequently to overflow audiences. In Gallipolis, Ohio (pop. 7,100) a ballet drew 1,500 children from all the countryside. In Hartford's (Conn.) Bushnell Memorial Auditorium last year 3,300 children filled every seat to hear an opera...
...depraving their children's taste so that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences the child to adopt the same attitude...
...difficult as balancing the U. S. budget is the task of devising cinema plots in which opera stars may be induced to perform less self-consciously than opera stars. Last week two of Hollywood's attempts to skirt this problem appeared, with varying success...