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...Screw Caps. The vineyards of the premium producers-Almaden, Beaulieu, Beringer, Cresta Blanca. Inglenook, Korbel, Krug, Louis Martini, Masson, Wente, et al.-are concentrated chiefly in the Napa Valley and coastal areas near San Francisco. Most own their own vineyards, bottle their table wine in the old traditional style of the good French winemakers, studiously disdaining such modern advances as concrete fermentation vats and screw-cap bottle tops. Their wine is labeled with the name of the grape from which it is made, so that buyers can approximate the European equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay...
...Benjamin Britten was over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
...editors have not given me room to speculate on such matters (I should also like to know sometime why the directors of the new American Festival chose The Turn of the Screw for their "Gala Opening Event" rather than Mr. Britten's truly gala Midsummer Night's Dream) and I must indeed admit at once that Mr. Britten certainly has made the best of a bad business. James's ambiguous suggestions of the governess's own insanity have necessarily been ignored: Peter Quint and his cohort Miss Jessel are accepted as real enough apparitions of evil, and governess is affirmed...
...egging Macbeth on to murder King Duncan. Macbeth submits, "If we should fail--." and she replies "We fail"--two small but crucial words. Miss Tandy just losses them off in a natural voice, rapidly and impatiently--and this destroys the scene's psychology. She is trying to screw his courage to the sticking-place, and the possibility of failure is not to be admitted. It is imperative for her to convey incredulity with force in those two words...
...American Festival at the Arts Center Theatre (Soldiers Field Road, AL 4-1310): The season opens July 5 with Patricia Neway in "The Turn of the Screw," Benjamin Britten's opera ghost story. The show closes July...