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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's festival was newly located in an aqua, gold and navy tent (capacity 2,000) near Bear Mountain, only an hour's drive from Manhattan. From season's start the tent was jammed to capacity, and the programs included such stimulating fare as a full-stage production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a production of Stravinsky's stately Oedipus Rex, conducted by Stokowski. Impresario Forest, who still clips profitable pharmaceutical coupons, thinks that in another summer or so the festival will pay its own way. Meantime, he is angling...
...broad-faced driver has never before been a headliner: the low-slung car is operated on a shoestring. But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challenging-and beating-the world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h. on the straightaways...
Conquest (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). After a season full of soaring space shots, Air Force Major David Simons' record-breaking 1957 balloon ascent (20 miles up) may seem minor stuff. But even in a rerun, it is an exciting adventure...
...tribute to the late Ethel Barrymore, director Marston Balch and the company of the Tufts Arena Theatre have revived The Royal Family. And with this early (1927) George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy, these industrious young student-performers conclude their 1959 summer season, by taking us back to the Roaring Twenties when the Barrymores were the reigning theatrical dynasty...
...lively, amusing production, utilizing the arena stage with ease. Frederick Blais, as Oscar Wolfe, the devoted manager of the Cavendish clan, is just about perfect. Sporting an hillarious Viennese accent, impressive gestures, and clean decisive movement, he turns in the most polished performance I have seen at Tufts this season...