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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
...army truck corps, Martin du Gard conceived the idea of The Thibaults and reorganized his life to write it according to plan. The plan worked equally well on his country estate in Normandy or at his apartment in Nice. On Monday mornings he would disappear into his workroom; seldom reappear until Friday night...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
Like newspapers, magazines seldom snipe at one another in print. But when Look ran a piece last Feb. 15 stating that President Roosevelt had been direly ill for several years before his death, it might have known that it was inviting a blast from the writing Roosevelts. Last week Look got the counterfire...
...composer's intentions for Koussevitzky's idea of effect, and the physical limitations of Symphony Hall's stage forced the conductor to use a smaller chorus than is ordinarily employed. But Dr. Koussevitzky's interpretation of Beethoven's masterpiece was one which for sheer beauty and noble concept will seldom be approached...