Word: pagliaccis
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...grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what looked like an inevitable anticlimax of more arias, prolonged congratulations and embraces by hero and heroine, the curtain comes down...
...past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes such rarities as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bach's Phobus and Pan, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona...
...went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
Tuesday Evening, May 15 *Hungarian March, "Rakoczy" Berlioz *Overture to "Der Freischutz" Weber *"March of the Little Lead Soldiers" Pierne *"Pagliacci," Fantasia Leoncayallo *"Danse Macabre," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *"Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" Arranged by Pochon *"William Tell," Overture Rossini *"El Amor Brujo" ("Love, the Sorcerer") de Falla Hans Wiener and his Dance Group...
...come out of semi-retirement to back his production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type...