Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haganah sponsors hurl their own hot words at Hecht in full-page ads: "There are new playboys in America; they play with Jewish blood. The thrills of Hollywood are no longer sharp enough. They need lustier excitement, bolder showmanship. . . . They egg on the mad children of the Irgun: the distant whiff of bombs is headier than a cocktail...
...play deals sufficiently with manners to prove Congreve the most polished of the Restoration dramatists. Like the rest of them, he had a poor opinion of the human race. Either self-indulgence or self-interest is always well downstage in Love for Love; there is no love for love's sake. But where most Restoration writers were gross, Congreve was graceful. His people air their low thoughts in high language; his scandalmongers are witty; his sluts have style...
...sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera opens with a rousing drinking and singing bout in the tent of Roman Generals Junius and Collatinus, with Tarquinius, the Etruscan prince who "treats the proud city [Rome] as if it were his whore." It closes with an anticlimactic epilogue after Lucretia's dramatic suicide...
...spite of his efforts to stay out of the limelight, shy Dmitri Shostakovich stole the show. One of the festival's big events was his Eighth Symphony, conducted by friend Eugene Mravinsky (to whom the Eighth is dedicated), conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. When the Czech radio recently played the Eighth, the score was altered because it was considered too difficult to play; this time Mravinsky brought along his own score...
...Past. He learns, of course; the rake is murdered; Miss Lamarr goes on trial for her life. True Love, Dutch-uncled by Psychiatry, comes of age just in time and snags the real murderer. The whole show may possibly be trying to point a moral: a lady cannot play fast & loose and expect her dream man to remain chaste...