Word: tyrants
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...another version of the one where the soprano saves the tenor by promising herself to the baritone, then cheats by committing suicide and boasting about it beforehand. The soprano in this case was Rosa Ponselle who sang superbly but looked funny in a Pocahontas get-up luring the Spanish tyrant (Baritone Mario Basiola). The tenor was Brooklyn-born Frederick Jagel who increased his stature but not his dignity by wearing an enormous headpiece ludicrously like the Mad Hatter...
...always liked the picture of the honest, slow, bull necked, barons rumbling down to the waters of Runnymede to defend their rights and the right. All unconscious of the fact that they were transforming English history, interested only in the problems of the day, they confronted the greatest tyrant the nation has ever known and snarled out Magna Charta. The significance of 1215 can be found in Kipling's "The Reeds of Runnymede" which the Vagabond would like to suggest as a comfortable method of absorbing history. Because he knows the lassitude of the mind, he will quote four lines...
...denied reports that if & when the revolution was successful he might possibly be chosen President of Cuba. The Capote family and the other members of the Biltmore junta were not downhearted. To a steady accompaniment of ringing telephones and banging doors they stayed at their posts, denouncing Machado the Tyrant, issuing clarions for Cuba Libre, pouring tea for the Press...
...shirt sleeves as well as gentry in starched collars and decollete. First performance was a novelty: Gioa-chino Rossini's highly difficult William Tell which Chicago had not heard since 1919. Ravinia fans were glad to hear once more Elisabeth Rethberg as Mathilde, plump soprano daughter of Tyrant Gessler, and Giovanni Martinelli as her lover Arnold, heroic tenor patriot. Soprano Rethberg's bright Saxon face will soon be tanned dark beneath her pink & white makeup, for each year she takes a house near the lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season...
...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...