Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, for The Cocktail Party, his new blank-verse comedy, Playwright Eliot appeared in a new role: the harried craftsman who jots notes in the balcony while the actor runs through the dress rehearsal. For four weeks in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theater, Eliot had watched rehearsals, chatted with the actors over gin an water, and penciled his unpublished script with cuts and corrections...
Last week the first of some 60.000 other visitors-Danes on their bikes, Hollanders in hobnailed boots, American girls in nylon dresses-were" also gorging themselves on musical goodies as long as they could stay at the table. With a swirl and a flourish down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh's third and already famed International Festival of Music and Drama was under...
...damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue but one-obedience...
...Much Boomerang." At week's end, British critics found Goossens a man who "gives an impression of almost frightening efficiency," although they found his Berliners, by comparison with Beecham's Royal Philharmonic, slightly drab. Some found fault with his Mozart "Jupiter" (too dull). But after Roy Harris' brassy Third Symphony and Goossens' own Oboe Concerto (written for and played by his brother, the great oboist Leon Goossens), they had to admit that "the results [of his efficiency] certainly [were] confirmed a hundredfold...
Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...