Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novak managed to scale the heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...Summer School Chorus of 100 members will give its annual concert on August 13 in Sanders Theatre; he continued; and included in the program this year will be Randall Thompson's "Ode to the Virginian Voyage...
Professor Thompson, chairman of the University Music Department, composed this work for the 1957 Jamestown Festival commemorating the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia...
Jacqueline Brookes is fine as Desdemona, "the sweetest innocent that e'er did lift up eye." Her handling of the moments when she is slapped and bewhored by Othello is deeply affecting, and her dying words most touching. Olive Deering does well as the loose Bianca. But Sada Thompson's Emilia is too Desdemona-like; she ought to be sharply contrasted with her mistress--less refined, more common and blunt, at times even vulgar. I suspect the result would have been better if the Misses Thompson and Deering had exchanged roles...
June 16 witnessed a concert of choral and instrumental music by New England composers. Lorna Cooke deVaron led her carefully trained New England Conservatory Chorus in pieces dating from 1612 to the present. The unpredictable Charles Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing...