Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
...production and most charming failure. A retelling, with music, dances and pageantry, of a 500-year-old Chinese classic, it never quite catches the inner glow of art or the outward stir of theater. There should have been either less spectacle or less story. As it is, the old tale is retold at considerable length, but loses much of its flow and human feeling through gorgeous interruptions and sumptuous distractions. What's more, neither the writing nor the acting has quite the stylized quality it reaches after...
...Winter's Tale (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theatre Guild) dates from that final period of Shakespeare's when reality-even real people-had seemingly begun to bore him. His plays became such stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...more than half the way The Winter's Tale is harsh, high-busted melodrama. On flimsy grounds King Leontes of Sicilia (Henry Daniell) inflames his own imagination with insanely jealous suspicions of his Queen and Polixenes, King of Bohemia...
Sixteen years pass by and the banished babe is now a charming shepherdess loved by a prince. Peasants dance, bumpkins clown, rogues play tricks, and after a few fairy-tale snags, everyone is reunited and lives happily ever after...