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Despite-or because of-the ordeal, the reporters and staff have enjoyed a freewheeling camaraderie. Each group has thrown a party for the other. At one of them, tireless Candidate Kefauver himself gallantly delivered a reporter's written spoof of his speechifying cliches and halting style. Reported the New York Daily News's Gwen Gibson: "While some don't like him as a politician, reporters with him have learned to like the stumbling, fumbling Tennessee Senator as a person...
...goes Orpheus in the Underworld, Jacques Offenbach's delightful spoof of Greek mythology, presented in English by the New York City Opera Company last week. The stylishly scant scenery (including a tricky, tilted revolving stage) is handsome; the staging is often funny; and the music is as charming as it was 100 years ago. Under the firm and concise direction of Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 44, who left the Rochester Philharmonic to become the City Center's new musical director, the brilliant score is beautifully played. The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined...
...night last week saw an eager audience. On the program: three examples of a relatively new and typically American type of musical theater-the small, intimate, mostly humorous opera. First came Gertrude Stem's In a Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with...
...CAPITOL OFFENSE, by Jocelyn Davey (253 pp.; Knopf; $3), is set in and around the British embassy in Washington. The dust jacket accurately describes it as "an entertainment." There are a couple of murders, but in the main the book is a witty, lighthearted spoof of the diplomatic set-including the Americans, the French, the South Americans, the Russians and, of course, the British, who are able to spoof themselves more tellingly than anyone else...
...Harrison reputation was growing among professionals. When he and Lilli co-starred in an airy drawing-room spoof called Bell, Book and Candle, Author John Van Druten, who also directed, declared flatly: "I think he is probably the most brilliant actor I've ever worked with. He is fantastically meticulous. He will pause to think out every suggestion, and then try it over and over again until he's satisfied. He will even try out whether to put his weight on his toes, heels, or on the ball of his foot when he is turning and delivering...