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Harry is the hero of Henry Miller's first and only play, Just Wild About Harry, written in three days in 1960 and given its world premiere last week in Spoleto at Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. The play is standard, consistent Miller all the way; that is to say, it is a show of dirty drivel...
This will be Miss Hiatt's second season as director of the Summer School Chorus. Under her direction the Smith College Glee Club has appeared, over the past 15 years, in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Symphony Hall, and has toured England, Mexico and Italy. In Spoleto, Italy, the group was conducted by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti...
...with art in a Workers' and Peasants' Paradise. The ideological Neues Deutschland quoted Lenin and observed that the opera epitomized the downfall of Herod's degenerate court, and was therefore historically instructive. It was better, said Neues Deutschland, than Luchino Visconti's 1961 production at Spoleto (where John was "a proletarian upon whose class consciousness Salome comes to grief") or Wieland Wagner's West Berlin production last December, in which religiosity was emphasized. But connoisseurs of the basic Salome, who do not bother themselves with such matters, were content to say that Rudolfova...
...have seen The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore two times in Spoleto, once in New Haven, once in Philadelphia and twice at the Morosco Theater, and although I am fascinated by your drama critic's exegesis of the play's meaning [Jan. 25] I find myself in 100% disagreement...
...everyone who was anyone along the Rome-New York social beat, the place to be last week was the Spoleto Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. The charity affair, to raise money for Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's annual Festival of Two Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters...