Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vital question of whether the Soviet Union can fight successfully on two fronts depends upon the untested efficiency of one of the world's great arsenals, Siberia. If the Russians perform a military miracle in the east, it will be because of an industrial and agricultural miracle already performed...
...first place, one or two of the forthcoming college dances are offering music that should be fairly satisfying to the discerning listener, while serving as an appropriate background to the festivities. There is, for instance, in the offing, Andy Kirk, who has an experienced colored band that can even perform current popular favorites pleasantly, although its chief accomplishments are in a more exciting vein. Like all colored bands of its stature, Kirk's has its share of soloists, although it will be lacking two of the most eminent, who were playing when I last heard the orchestra several months...
...actors underneath. Dob- and Bob-chinsky are two of the funniest characters imaginable. Earl Montgomery and Bob Keahey have the two important male roles, both of which are done with excellent comedy timing, while the two feminine leads, Jacqueline Proctor of Erskine and Edith Bronson of Radcliffe, perform nicely in the two most ordinary parts in the play. Particularly pleasant is the love sequence between these two and Bob Keahey with Miss Bronson in at the clinch...
...contesting Parliamentary by-elections, hands the seats by default to the party which won them in the last (1935) general election. Snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "The result is a steady procession of ersatz M.P.s through the portals of Westminster. . . . They would have a valuable function to perform in a Fascist Grand Council where suitable and spontaneous cheers are required to intersperse the leader's broadcasts to the world...
Other laurels must go to the able dramatic directing of S. Leonard Kent, the conducting and music directing of Malcolm Holmes, and to the stage designer John Holabird, whose brilliant sets perform miracles in creating an atmosphere of gaiety. The opera itself, ideally suited to the production it gets here, and unencumbered by the artificialities that made Handel and Purcell so fussy to stage, may unhesitatingly by classed as the Society's most triumphant venture to date, something to take pleasure in now, and something to look back on in years to come when such productions may no longer...