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...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
Prematurely written off as a lifeless affair, the K. of C. track meet last Saturday at the Boston Garden surprised veteran observers with a rash of splendid performances. Many of the very best efforts were contributed by the Yale track team-an ominous portent if there ever...
Triston and Isolde, of all works, is the biggest hit at the Metropolitan Opera. The reason for this sensation is the Widely publicized and truly splendid performance of the statuesque (and this is not intended as a euphemism for "fat") Swedish dramatic soprano, Birgit Nilsson, whose Isolde was accorded a tremendous ovation at the first performance of the Met's new production last month...
AMERICAN Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder's splendid parody of a Mack Sennett comedy, sustained without letup or letdown for two hours (TIME, March...
After his triumph of India, Ike moved on to Teheran, where for six chilly hours (28°) the Shah of Iran was his host. The Shah turned out some splendid Persian-style opulence for the visiting American: beautiful rugs were laid on the streets under ceremonial arches and along the final 200 yards of the route to the Shah's marble palace. After lunch with the Shah, Ike told the Iranian Parliament: "I well know you and the people of Iran are not standing on the sidelines in this struggle [for peace among nations]. Without flinching, you have borne...