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...sets and staging. The Flute's libretto, with its pseudo-Masonic mumbo jumbo and up to 16 bewildering scene changes, has always been a terror to stage craftsmen, but it also offers charm, humor, pageantry and plenty of cues for imagination, and these the Met missed. Scenic backgrounds were ingeniously provided by special 5,000-watt projectors, but most of the projections were hazy and dull (one, during the Queen of the Night's big aria, looked like a distorted Manhattan skyline). And despite the magic lights at his disposal, Scene Designer Harry Horner insisted on trundling...
...clear that the London fiasco is not to be repeated by Producer Kermit Bloomgarden. For that production Christopher Fry had done a literal translation from the French. For this one Lillian Hellman has cut 43 pages of Anouilh -and ennui. What is left, while faithful to the original in scenic form, has been trenchantly rewritten by one of the ablest theater minds in the U.S., and the result is intellectual theater at close to its best. The ideas that the drama deals in are among the grandest in the human range, and as they marshal and maneuver on the stage...
Hadden's message to the 1,892 delegates was that much of this travel is inspired by news stories about people and places as well as scenic color spreads such as those that appear regularly in TIME. To prove his point, he tested the delegates with a panel of numbered pictures that had illustrated TIME stories. A surprising number of dele gates knew all the answers. Still there were skeptics...
...camera and tumbled him 4 ft. over the edge to a shelf with a view 700 ft. straight down. His great 8 by 10 studio camera-basically unchanged in construction from the days of Daguerre, Morse and Mathew Brady, but still, in Smith's opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
Equally taxing were the opera's numerous scenic effects. Examples: a skeleton hanging on a wall that suddenly begins to sing and flail its arms; a scene where Mephistopheles throws a small boy on a table, carves him up and swallows him (in the Venice production, the boy actually disappeared in a flash of light as the knife descended...