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...Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto the end, a normal U. S. citizen will enjoy this version of it more than any other he has ever seen. The piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern...
...Rochester, the Philharmonic Orchestra gave its opening concert. At just the appointed time Conductor Eugene Goossens, trimmest of all conductors, sent floating through the spaces of the Eastman Theatre the honest harmonies of Weber's Oberon Overture, the enchanted woods of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi, Respighi's Concerto Gregoriano, new to Rochester, stately, breathing the musty grandeur of old cathedrals and shufffling monks. Rochester applauded it courteously. Rochester saved its loudest approval for Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, after its awful pessimism had finally been led by the cellos and the big basses into a despair...