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...production's theatrical weakness, not its financial failure, is the real shame. Anne Bancroft contributes a valiant performance, and Eric Bentley's revised translation is more smooth and idiomatic than his previous efforts (while avoiding the Runyanesque inaccuracy of Blitzstein's Threepenny Opera). The least known of Brecht's musical collaborators, Paul Dessau, successfully broadens the tradition of Weill, Hindemith and Eisler. Unfortunately, the modified orchestra blares his tunes over Miss Bancroft's not-brassy-enough voice...
What They Do Best. Hampered by heavy taxes, small markets and featherbedded payrolls, many of the local auto plants are inefficient and expensive: a homemade Chrysler Corp. Valiant sells for $3,500 in Venezuela, a Ford Falcon for $5,530 in Argentina. Nationalistic politicians argue that these prices are not too high to pay for developing a national industry that will create jobs, reduce imports and preserve precious foreign exchange. In Brazil alone, 1,300 companies have sprung up to supply the automakers, and only $24 worth of parts on each car is now imported. But Argentina still spends...
Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell...
...performance of Hamlet as I can remember." Years later, when Winston Churchill?The Valiant Years was under preparation for television, its producers asked Sir Winston who he thought should do the voice of Churchill. "Get that boy from the Old Vic," said...
...valiant effort to add some interest to Saturday's track meet, Chris Ohiri shattered the oldest existing University record with a spectacular 48 ft. 7 1/2 in. effort in the hop, step and jump. Ohiri's performance bettered the old mark of 48 ft. 6 in. set by Edward Bloss in 1893. Meanwhile, the Crimson slaughtered Dartmouth 117-32, collecting 13 first places and 14 seconds...