Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black high-collared rehearsal coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC's Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct...
Alonso's central idea is very interesting. His Don Juan is neither Mozart's energetic young lover proud enough to defy God, nor Shaw's immortal philosopher. Instead, he is an ageing man who, even though as the son of an angel he possesses the power to charm all woman, has never found a single woman he could love. The play shows his last attempt to find love, and its pattern is the tragedy of hope in the face of certain defeat...
Green admitted that it would probably be necessary for the Club to go into bankruptcy if it did disband, for its present debts total $2000, including the outlay on the impending production of Shaw's Doctor's Dilemma. He estimated that the receipts from this play, plus a consequent sale on assets, estimated at $700, would remove most of this debt...
...Levy has deduced Shaw's outlook from his opinions, in a fair and critical way. Where necessary, he acknowledges the non-judicial prejudices that helped Shaw establish a doctrine (except in the liquor-licensing cases, where he curiously fails to consider whether Shaw's readiness to uphold the State's "police power" might have proceeded from the Chief Justice's own prohibitionist leaning...
...Cressyda could be seen for $.90, two years ago the cheapest seat in the house for that remarkable production of Macbeth was $1.20. And while in 1952 one could have seen a professional production of Billy Budd, by the Brattle Players, for $.80 and a full length production of Shaw's Candida for $.60, one now is forced to pay $1.50 to scramble for a chair in the Adams House lower common room to see students playing Uncle Vanya. Just five years ago the Harvard Theater Group presented Coriolanus with admission only $.60; in 1955 the HDC came out with...