Word: scenically
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...Poseidon in exchange for his own safety. Though Idomeneo is unwieldy on the stage, members of the orchestra and cast (representing the U.S., England, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Australia) put on a first-rate show, glittering with classic fidelity to Mozart, plus modern ornamentations of ballet and striking scenic effects. Next day, critics echoed the audience's bravos for a valiant try. The Times found the opera "a worthy introduction after a wait of 170 years." Said the News Chronicle: "Unequal though it is ... a most moving experience...
...Scenic Spree. A Western Journal is the diary Wolfe kept on the hectic two-week trip through eleven parks in eight states (distance covered: 4,632 miles). Judged as literature, these hurried jottings are unimportant except to Wolfe students and cultists. But like his novels and stories, they reflect Wolfe's insatiable appetite for evidence of his country's natural variety and grandeur. He was, as a close friend remarked, "a man who could get drunk on scenery," and the Journal shows him on one of his happiest sprees...
...Riviera (20th Century-Fox) is that rare Hollywood accomplishment, a cinemusical whose songs, dances and laughs sparkle as brightly as its Technicolor. Set among the lavish pleasures-scenic and feminine-of the French Riviera, the movie serves a fat double helping of Danny Kaye, playing both a brash U.S. entertainer and a debonair French hero whom women cannot resist...
Ruskin was sharp eyed, enthusiastic and 21 when he first met Turner. He hurried home and wrote in his diary: "Introduced today to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge . . . I found in him a somewhat eccentric, keen-mannered, matter-of-fact, English-minded gentleman...
...identities and doubles entendres a shining new face,* he called on Playwright-Director Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. Lyricist (Inside U.S.A.) and M-G-M Vice President Howard Dietz supplied Kanin's "free adaptation" with a new English-speaking voice. Designer Rolf Gerard was recruited to repeat his earlier scenic success with Don Carlo; pint-sized Conductor Eugene Ormandy was borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The only thing not touched: Strauss's score, which, says Kanin, was "protected like a delicate child...