Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staging does not lag behind the music in effectiveness. There are only three changes of scene, but the varying lights and groupings make all three powerful, especially the few minutes after the picnic, in a heavy, blue-green palmetto jungle, when the exile Crown meets his erst while woman Bess and keeps her until it is too late for her to return to Porgy...
...acting is uniformly good: the temptation to overdo almost never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Sophia Kamius, 26, reached for a cookie on top of a cupboard. The cupboard fell on her. Neighbors arrived, thought she had been robbed, called the police. A police car speeding to the scene careened into an-other car, threw three officers into the street...
...STREET SCENE-poetry and passion in Manhattan's purlieus...
...perennially provocative commentator on the U. S. college scene is Princeton's judicious, pince-nezzed. slow-spoken Dean Christian Gauss. His current contributions have been in the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "The Good Old Times." Excerpts...