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Still crusading last week, Sir Thomas took his famed Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to Oxford's New Theater for the world premiere of Delius' 61-year-old opera, Irmelin. For four hours, the wistful music wended its peaceful way. The Princess Irmelin rejected her 100th suitor, explaining, in effect, that she was not frigid, just waiting for her dream man. She finally got him in the last scene, in the person of a swineherd...
...Suitor at 60? Recently Komar has become restless; he thinks of living in a house of his own. He will hardly admit it to himself, but this is really one way of getting ready for death. For "there was something awful and sad about old men dying in rented rooms...
...filming is not sympathetic however, only ludicrous. Her problems seem unimportant because Margaret is never abandoned or alone. Vacuous Sterling Hayden is always standing by, ready to accept her debts, her neuroses, and her teen-age daughter. When Margaret finally makes the obvious choice between a healthy suitor and a sickly career, it is not because she has grown or gained insight during the picture. Rather, the film ends because Miss Davis has trotted through the emotional gamut and there is nothing more...
Resignation Accepted. Local newspapers were outraged. The Soviet zone Communist radio made a big thing of it, incidentally identifying the Marquess as a former suitor of Princess Margaret Rose. After advising Whitehall in London, the British resident officer at Goslar made an apology to Herr Lieberkuehn; Blandford and his cronies paid 40 DM. ($9.90) for damage to Herr Lieberkuehn's property (two broken windows, a trampled garden). The pink coats were ordered into mothballs and the ducal hounds were sent back, tails down, to their home kennels...
...Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered between Blanche's lurid inner life and the real life of a New Orleans slum: Blanche's wistful meeting with a potential suitor, a boisterous crap game, the taut marriage of her sister and brother-in-law (danced by Lois Ellyn and Franklin). Dramatic climax: a hair-raising chase through a series of shuttered doors...