Word: pandemoniums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth row center. In the second act, both the play and the playing take on considerably more life. There is some funny pantomime, notably of the producer and two of his associates wolfing their first square meal in days. But there is never the faintest approach to pandemonium; and though the third act is not, like the first, a fiasco, it is run-of-the-mine entertainment...
Even so, there is never a calm moment on the stage, nor many dull ones in the audience. To be sure, The Bat does no one thing very well-it never really horrifies, or mystifies, or amuses; there is profusion rather than skill, pandemonium rather than tension. But since, even in 1920, The Bat aimed at the funnybone as well as the spine, it would perhaps be a mistake to concentrate on one or the other now. What it could use is better acting: only Lucile Watson as the imperious spinster, and Zasu Pitts at moments as the maid...
...Tatum, 42, the old master of the swing era, and a pair of smooth-sounding sidemen riffed through Sweet Sue and Sweet Lorraine. His right hand rippled all over the keyboard, but the overall effect was one of sophistication rather than pandemonium...
...twin beds, and people were perching cheerfully on top of the coats & hats. Others helped themselves to the open bottles of Scotch, bourbon and rye on the dresser, or dug into the communal paper buckets of chop suey, chicken and egg rolls on the table. Looming above the pandemonium, with the air of a prophet who has just been slugged by a vigorous vision, was Candidate Estes Kefauver. He moved slowly through the throng, sipping a Scotch highball, dropping an affectionate long arm around shoulder after shoulder, and murmuring fervently: "I certainly did appreciate your help...
...LONDON, Gian-Carlo Menotti got an opening-night ovation for The Consul, in contrast to the pandemonium of boos and bravos it raised at La Scala (TIME, Feb. 5). Nobody tried to drown out the singers with toy whistles or shouted "Down with America!" Said Menotti: "I still have friends in Britain...