Word: regina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marc Blitzstein, under a Koussevitzky commission, found these in "The Little-Foxes" by Lillian Hellman, and he calls the product "Regina." The play deals with a decadent, bickering Southern family which breaks to pieces over an unscrupulous money deal. The composer has worked into this a ball with many Southern belles and several appearances of singing and playing Negroes. In general the music effectively increases the tension, though, with a lack of variation in the first act which is exasperating. Many of the arias, particularly those of the sweet, flighty Birdie, are genuine mood pieces, effectively incorporating devices...
...concise with a welcome absence of trivia. The arias get somewhere and the words are skillfully treated in the music. Only once does he allow himself to be led astray by his social conscience into a long scene in which the Negroes make fun of the gossipping society at Regina's ball...
Imperial, whose funds are furnished largely by its parent company, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), will spend an estimated $40 million this year for a pipeline from Leduc to its refinery in Regina. At a time when U.S. capital is fighting shy of oil investments in Latin America, about 80% of the current spending in Canada is U.S. money...
Because the U.S. now has an oil surplus, U.S. oilmen have been bringing pressure in Washington to cut down imports of foreign oil. Faced with that possibility, Alberta's producers have had to consider alternatives. One might be to pipe the oil from Regina to Port Arthur (see map). Another might be to carry oil to Duluth by pipeline under bond, then ship it by tanker to industrial cities in eastern Canada...
British playgoers have never been allowed to see the complete Victoria Regina, Broadway hit of 1935-36, because some of its characters represent living royalty. They missed the Negro miracle play, The Green Pastures, because its chief character was De Lawd. Officially, they never saw Manhattan's long-running Tobacco Road because of its shady morals...