Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time-tested program will be performed by the Orchestra at the in-town week-end concerts. Mendelasohn's "Tingal's Cave" Overture and Third Symphony, Sibeliua's "Tapiols," and Tschaikowsky's "Romeo and Juliet" overture fantasia are the offerings...
...only one state are all three represented, Michigan. Michigan even goes a step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
Tchaikovsky's sombre Romeo & Juliet Overture usually takes 16 min., or four or five sides of phonograph records, to present the strife between Montagues & Capulets, the love between their offspring, the appearance of Friar Laurence, the death of the lovers. By cutting whole pages of repetition and development, Conductor Kostelanetz will give casual listeners this week a pretty good idea what Tchaikovsky was driving at in only 285 sec. flat. Likewise the overture to The Barber of Seville will be reduced from 7 min. to 1½ min. and the late George Gershwin's 16-min. American...
...Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their feet to roar Viva l'amore Viva l'amore! (Long live love!). At the end of the play Romeo bowed to the couple...
...what it calls "prestige pictures." Made with an eye to pleasing serious critics, these productions are intended primarily to stimulate the self-respect rather than fill the purses of their makers. Prestige pictures are such films as The Green Pastures, Winter set, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Camille and the like. Many prestige pictures lost money. Many are bores...