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...Dies irae. Levin's fugue was based on fragments left by Mozart which Sussmayr, for some obscure reason, preferred to leave untouched. Brief but masterful and prodigious, the fugue sported a long Brahmsian timpanum roll which acted as a tonic pedal bringing the fugue to conclusion. It was another plume for Levin's many chapeaux...
...this story pleasantly loses itself in the fireworks of the staging. Kaplan seems embarassed by his play and hides it underneath slick, intriguing extra baggage. A trio of dancers introduce the play and revive it every so often with some beautiful props--portable striped walls and peacock plume pens. Howard Cutler's set--a thatched Roman comedy setup--is thoroughly used by Kaplan. Unlike most Loeb sets it is reassuringly substantial and handsome...
...gleefully presents himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold, bad Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich-board men into the streets of Manhattan encased in portable placarded pissoirs; persuaded President Johnson to accept the title tune of Hello, Dolly! (a Merrick show) as his campaign song; and conducted...
Cowardice, pride, propriety, fear of fame-there are many reasons why writers choose to hide behind noms de plume. The author of this clean-cut gem of a first novel clearly was motivated by prudence. "Helen Hudson" displays such knowledge of faculty politics and makes the ambitions and jealousies of her professors and their wives so sadly true that it is obvious she occupies, or once occupied, her own glade in the groves of academe...
...swordsmen are 7-2 for the season, but most of the wins have come at the expense of third-rate teams. The brightest plume in the Crimson fencing cap this year has been the 17-10 creaming of C.C.N.Y. Harvard lost to powers N.Y.U., 18 to 9, and Columbia...