Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's lovelies prove as deciduous as the Minsky variety, but their nudity must stand on its own without bumps or grinds. Perambulant stripping is taboo, and a prim sign in the lobby warns customers that "any additional aid to vision is not permitted." Forbidden the use of opera glasses under this rule, a seagoing burlesque fan recently did his best to provide a substitute. Navigational instruments are usually equipped with telescopes, so the sailor brought along his sextant. The Windmill management promptly sent him home...
...Boston Herald scooped the entertainment world yesterday morning by a full week with the announcement of the premier of the Lowell House Opera presentation of "Acis and Galatea" Wednesday night...
Costuming and props, as far as practicable, will be reproductions of originals. A rarely-performed opera, "Acts and Galatea" was presented by Boris Goldovsky at Tanglewood several years ago in a naturalistic outdoor setting...
...Lowell House Musical Society will plunge into the past next week and present Handel's opera "Acis and Galatea" in the form and manner of its original eighteenth-century production...
Revival after a seven-year lapse of Lowell tradition of presenting an opera annually has been received enthusiastically by Boston and Cambridge academic and society folk, who have swung a measure of financial support behind the project...