Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Galloping horses confused artists long before the Persians. To compare one prehistoric cave dweller's version (circa 20,000 B.C.) with Remington's realistic cow ponies, see cuts...
...Grimes quit his job, got a Communist visa for ten days, registered with the U.S. consulate in Berlin, then went with Irmgard to the Schroeder home in Nassenheide, 25 miles north of Berlin. Evelyn, 11, and Monica, 14, knew only two American phrases-"Nuts" and a clumsy version of "You aggravate me"-and many terrible tales about America. Said Mrs. Grimes: "I was heartsick about Monica's books; containing nothing but lies about...
...comedy turned out to be the smash hit of the 18th century, so popular that it forced London's chief composer of Italian opera, George Frederick Handel, to shutter his own fashionable opera house and ultimately turn to writing oratorios. The Weill version took little but the characters from John Gay, was itself a satire on grandiose German operas. It so inflamed musical conservatives in Berlin that students rioted and stoned the theater where it was playing...
Manhattan's new version is neither a smash hit nor a matter for riot. It sometimes bogs down in prosy prose and amateurish acting. But the enthusiasm of audiences for Weill's score shows there's life in the old beggar...
Martin Meyers gets the most laughs, and deserves most of them, with his gape-mouthed version of a farm boy at Harvard. Robert Rosenberger and Lee Jefferies do the romantic bits with fervor and slightly weak voices, managing, above all, to seem sincere and attractive. Barbara Williams' distinctly frail voice was backed with charm and bounce for "Incognito"--her only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When...