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...woodcut, rarely a delicate medium, is one challenging to subtlety; Barlach capitalizes upon its bold, vigorous hardness, converting a linear element to sculptural, determined shape, substituting candid and forceful areas for greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process...
...Tenuous Transition. More than a quarter of a century ago, Eloïse Roach fell in love with Poet Jiménez' best-loved book, Platero and I, determined to translate it. Many experts in Spanish literature (including Jiménez himself and his late wife), thought that the book's 138 prose poems were too delicate to make the transition to English. But in 1935 Teacher Roach traveled to Madrid and begged the shy, ailing Jiménez to look at the beginning she had made. Sitting on a couch together, the poet and his wife began...
...good production of a bad play with a sparkling production of a better play. This is not to say that The Would-be Gentleman is a dramatic masterpiece; it is certainly not that. When you come right down to it, there is hardly any plot at all; and such tenuous plot as there is does not even begin until three quarters of an hour have passed--the first 45 minutes constitute one long extended joke, but what a wonderful joke...
...venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when his critics objected that public funds should not be used for so tenuous a venture, Ziolkowski balked. Last week he said with a loud tone of finality: "It was not the white man that asked me to come out here, it was the Indians. Even if the Government does lend me the money, I won't accept...
Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's costumes are stunning. And Jean Rosenthal has contrived gorgeous lighting, including the unobtrusively judicious use of a "follow spot"; the lighting is by no means realistic, but rather underlines the shifting moods of the drama. Virgil Thomson's trumpet calls and occasional tenuous sound effects add virtually nothing...