Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solved: as one of four Boris bassos, he does not expect to get many chances to sing it. He now wants to try for a Don Giovanni at the Met, and then devote himself to his scheme of monopolizing a role that nobody else specializes in: Boito's version of the Faust legend, Mefistofele...
Adaptor Valency's English version is excellent prose. But dramatically, Ondine suffers from too much prose-or at any rate, too little poetry. Virgil Thomson's evocative incidental music suggests a tale better adapted to opera or ballet. For, however ironic and sophisticated, Giraudoux has not brought a new dimension, or even any very striking overtones, to an old story. What the tale gains in philosophical embroideries it more than loses in fairy-tale magic and lyrical feeling. It seems neither simple nor complex enough; in a certain prettiness and lifelessness, it suggests not the court magician...
...Lodger, plus a sequence of runaway river life that recalls the Injun Joe passages of Mark Twain. Davis Grubb, 34, was himself born in Moundsville, W. Va., and named after a grandfather who captained a steamboat on the Ohio. Next for Author Grubb's story: a film version by Producer Paul Gregory (Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), with Charles Laughton directing...
...contrast to the AP's release, the story promulgated by the United Press was liberal in sentiment and conservative in style. Although it did not reach so many readers as did the AP version, the UP account was handled in much the same way in the newspapers which used it as was the AP. But this time it was the midwestern papers, particularly those in Ohio and Indiana, which tended to go short on the story. As big a paper as the Pittsburg "Press" built the whole story around Kamin and left out Furry completely. Other papers did the reverse...
...most liberal papers in the country. Not a few printed only the witnesses' justification of their acts, in addition to the bare essentials of the hearing. Of course, there were exceptions. The Riverside, Cal. "Enterprise" blurted, "INSTRUCTORS DEFY SEN. McCARTHY--HARVARD MEN WON'T BE 'POLITICAL INFORMERS'" above their version of the hearing...