Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare might have made it up-but only after a short course in modern publicity methods. Wealthy Manhattan Attorney Walter R. Herrick didn't want his 20-year-old daughter Eileen to marry a dark-haired cafe socialite named George Lowther III. Romeo Lowther, a Yale man, would not be stopped. He hired a lawyer, made Parent Herrick produce his sheltered daughter in court, announced that they would elope if he had to get a fire department tower truck backed up against the Herrick apartment, finally collaborated with the tabloid Daily News to spirit Eileen off and marry...
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 (Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Serge Prokofiev conducting; Disc, 11 sides). Nothing like Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. This is lean, unsentimental music, composed for a Soviet ballet in 1935. It has never been recorded in the U.S. Performance: good...
...immortal lines emerge from this lively farce unless it be those in the program notes which conclude, "Apparently there is no secluded corner of this troubled orb where the rotund Romeo does not have a counterpart; for, no matter what the customs or the climate, there are wives who are merry and husbands who are cuckolds." Albeit that wastrel Falstaff does get off a few juicy monologues on the vices of good and the virtues of evil, they are nothing one would want to add to his personal book of rules...
...Romeo & Juliet turned out to be the victims of color prejudice. Broadway Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble saw it that way, and so prepared to produce the tragedy with colored Capulets and white Montagues. The new Juliet: beauteous Hilda Simms, currently the title-role streetwalker in Anna Lucasta...
...this system started with Adam, it would have meant that Antony would have met Cleopatra all right; but Abelard and Heloise would have missed by one letter, and Romeo and Juliet wouldn't have stood by a balcony, much less a chance...