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...couple of Abbott & Costello-like American sailors (Walter Chiari and Carlo Campanini) who are knocked out by thugs while sightseeing in the Colosseum and dream that they are having all sorts of misadventures in ancient Rome. Among the picture's low-comedy highlights: the voluptuous Empress Poppea (Silvana Pampanini) taking a milk bath that out-DeMilles De-Mille; the sailors engaging in a pocket-billiard contest with Nero (Gino Cervi); gladiators waging a savage football game in the Colosseum with a Grecian urn as a pigskin; a Roman orgy with jitterbugging; a frenzied chariot race in which...
...hour-and-a-half performance was one more sign of revived interest in the man who stands at the fountainhead of modern musical style. In the past few seasons, Monteverdi's operas Orfeo and Coronation of Poppea and the scenic cantata Battle of Tancred and Clorinda have had concert performances in Manhattan, and record companies-whose search for new repertory material is partly responsible for the revival-have already put out 17 Monteverdi...
...music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making...
...introduction which Mr. Strachey has composed for this masterpiece of radicalism, he urges the reader to believe that the communists are an erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
...attitude of France in the current crisis reminds one strongly of the late Nero, who is reported to have played a bacchanalian love ditty on his fiddle while Poppea was seducing his chief minister: Ever since the Huns invaded the sacred area of Montmartre in the seventies, Marianne has suspected the lusty Max of evil intentions. And with the advent of Hitler, those suspicions have changed into horrified terror...