Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth of Riofreddo, who had feared that Catholic Action would be rather dull, loved the idea. The reluctant few were convinced by the monitory appearance of Father Francesco's green umbrella before their doors. Arturo Vasselli, the carpenter, volunteered to construct a rough stage in a barn. The play chosen was Le Pistrine (the name of the prisons where early Christian martyrs waited their turn to be thrown to the lions...
...Senator's Daughter. Meanwhile, at the barn the show went on. The actors looked magnificent in their red robes and cardboard helmets. Who cared if now & then they glanced at the scripts in their hands? The play concerned a Roman senator who is to make a speech in favor of the Christians. Pagan priests kidnap the senator's daughter (played by Riofreddo's only blonde). Caffari, the bootmaker, playing the senator's role, lifted trembling hands to heaven. Said he: "Though my daughter shall suffer, I will do my duty and speak! I am a Christian...
...Manhattan, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, wife of Elliott, began rehearsing for her Broadway debut next month, in a revival of Ferencz Molnar's The Play's the Thing. Her part: the only female in a cast of nine...
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned...
Like most touring violinists, Francescatti finds U.S. orchestras slow about playing anything but the threadbare "boxoffice concertos" (Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky). Recently he wanted to play Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was told he couldn't because it would take an extra orchestra rehearsal, an expensive proposition. But he enjoys exploring the U.S.'s musical hinterland, playing old works in towns where they are still new. Says he: "In Europe, there is always the memory of the greats before you; there is always Joachim.* In new cities, you yourself can be Joachim...