Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tasks which Messrs. Titcomb et al. have seen fit to assign me is the reviewing of second rate dramatic productions. I found that Fair Game, which opened and closed at the Boston Summer Playhouse last week, fell easily in this category...
...Picasso's alone. The other painting, the Maternite, is a great masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies, and monumental rendering add up to the finest work by Picasso I can remember having seen--for good measure I'm even tempted to throw in Guernica! This painting is seen to best advantage on an overcast day when the Fogg puts an overhead light upon it. The best setting for it, however, would be the magnificent shadowed light of an Early Gothic Church. The other...
...elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums of South Carolina. For that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something of a nice Nellie out of bad Bess...
...show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen. Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier. What the actors are saying or singing comes blaring out of a dozen stereophonic loudspeakers in such volume that the spectator almost continually feels trapped in the middle of a cheering section...
...breezeway; the corner bedrooms can be isolated by sliding glass walls and curtains or thrown open so that the house can be used to its perimeters as one free-flowing area for living and entertainment. Said the jury: "The most memorable image of all the houses we have seen...