Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Molly on the Shore" Grainger *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March "Schuhplattler" Hog Dance Zwoaschritt *Second Norwegian Dance Grieg *Halian Capriccio Tschaikovsky "The Incredible Flutist" Piston (Dance Play by Hans Wiener) Hans Wiener and his Dancers with Orchestra *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
From the minute Shirley Mann began to sing "I'm Checking Home Now" till the ensemble's final triumphant warning that "The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's music drama had a sympathetic Sanders Theatre audience. Saturday night. If the test of a good play is its grip on the listeners, then "The Cradle" was a success...
...everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock...
...official of Owensboro, Ky., and George E. Deatherage, a St. Albans, W. Va., house painter with a Hitleresque mustache who calls himself "national commander of the Knights of the White Camellia." Messrs. Campbell and Deatherage decided to set up a sort of Hitler to whom they would play Göring and Goebbels. For their Führer they chose sympathetic Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who retired as commander of the U. S. Army's Fourth Corps Area last year with a blast against the New Deal, followed up with frightening speeches about the dastardly Jews, warnings...
When his first Broadway play, My Heart's in the Highlands, closed last week. Modest-Violet William Saroyan wired th Broadway critics: "The custom of reviewing a play on opening night is a good one, I believe, but not quite complete enough. I sincerely suggest, therefore that, if possible, you review the closing night also...