Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messersmith's success on the other points of his mission cannot yet be judged. The Perón Government has rounded up a few German and Japanese nationals, and announced plans to nationalize Axis-controlled industries. The Strong Man has said that in the .next war, Argentina would fight alongside the U.S. But at least one important wartime Nazi agent has been cleared by the Argentine courts, and others continue to hold high places in Government councils...
Russia, barricaded behind the veto, gleefully hurled embarrassing dead cats in a westerly direction. Because his name carried the best publicity value, Molotov worked overtime, pitching doubleheaders at Lake Success and the Big Four meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Reading Theatre promises to provide a long-awaited filler for this void, but its success demands more interest from without and more organization from within than was displayed yesterday in the Fogg Large Lecture Room. Friedman's play, victim of last-minute cutting and the resulting confusion of the actors, was hardly seen in a fair light. And the people present watched more with the attitude of a small band of die-hards than that of an audience...
...success achieved by the Opera Theatre, however, should by no means point out its efforts as the solution to the "opera problem" of the twentieth century, for there is no denying that musical values are sacrificed by overemphasis on stage effect. Conductor Goldovsky's order to his singers not to look at him during the course of the performance, for example, may have added to the stage reality of the production, but it surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English...
Much of the Opera Theatre's initial success must be attributed to his choice of opera, for this work of Mozart's is peculiarly suited both musically and theatrically to a small-scale, intimate production. Whether Goldovsky will do so well with Puccini and Menotti, his second bill, is another question; he might do well to consider something as unusual, worth-while, and theatrically entertaining as "Cosi Fan Tutte," for his as yet unrevealed third choice...