Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the 1940 blitz, when German bombs drowned out a performance of Faust, London's Sadler's Wells Theater reopened last week. Opening night, the premiere of Benjamin Britten's tragic opera, Peter Grimes, was London's biggest musical event in five years...
...fanciful version of Beethoven's life Harry Bauer presents a tragic, if unrealistic, picture of the great composer, Slurring over the musical aspect, it emphasizes a triangle in Beethoven's life so strongly that it is hard to recognize the line drawn between fact and the French love for love...
...here that the author has fallen down. he has tried to write a tragic drama, with the same maudlin result that characterized the over-publicized "Carousel." The returned hero struggles to communicate with his family, to let them know that he still exists despite his untimely decease. At the end of the play, mental or spiritual telepathy seems to have resulted in some sort of liaison between the soldier and his wife, who sides with the audience in not knowing what is going...
Perhaps the most destructive source of all to the tragic element of the play is the diction of several of the players. Blanche Yurka and Bert Lytell, as the hero's parents, are adequate in poorly-constructed roles, as are other less-important actors, Unfortunately for the audience, however, the author decided to-include in his piece several juveniles of the most objectionable variety. Tortuous as it is to sit through lengthy minutes of childish mock battles and other entertaining sports, it becomes living death by comparison to endure more than two hours of little boys and girls wandering around...
...Tragic though the situation appear for Radcliffe, many of the leading national figures will be hanging out the window of the maze of buildings surrounding the 'Cliffe quadrangle as a host of female take the field to meet their inevitable doom at the hands of Crime, the 'Pox Killer