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...Pensacola, had seen to that. Sinewy "Jumping Joe," who was never known to sit in a chair more than 30 seconds at a time, had put the group straight on his views right from the start. They were a team; there was no room for hot-shots or prima donnas no time for the slightest bit of sloppy flying, bad shooting, lazy tactics...
Although Miss Colt is miscast as the Prima Donna who gets her man in "Tosca" but can't in real life, she undoubtedly is the most vital and outstanding personality on the Brattle stage. Because of a tendency to recite her lines in rather a sing-song fashion, she loses much of their meaning and the chance to capitalize on many potential laughs. Of the supporting cast, Richard Hart in the role of the Unknown Gentleman, gives a very satisfactory performance. As the season progresses, a great deal can be expected from Lee Nugent, Allan Tower and Kathryn Cameron...
...English producers missed out on something, too, when they presented Handel's prima donna, the notorious Mrs. Cibber (who was actually sold by her husband to another man), as a pious woman. The picture is saved by the excellent performance of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the casting of Elizabeth Allan in a part which might have been spoiled by an opera singer...
Whether or not criticism of Allied strategy will be justified when all the facts are known, there was at least prima facie evidence that Allied tactics had been defective...
...Metropolitan's recent job (in which Soprano Grace Moore and Baritone Lawrence Tibbett substituted U.S. ham for Italian salami). The City Center's Carmen featured one of the best Carmens in a decade: dusky Jennie Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives with her Latvian artist husband, Leo Michelson, in a four-room Manhattan apartment. Her Carmen (a role she claims to have sung about 200 times) was full of Gallic spice and neat as a championship billiard game. The City Center...