Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laszlo Halasz adrift, the New York City Opera announced a spring season in the best Halasz tradition. In addition to eleven operas from current repertory, it promised productions of i) Alban Berg's tragic opera, Wozzeck, which no U.S. audience has seen in 21 years, 2) a stage version of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, and 3) a new adaptation, by Marc Blitzstein, of Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera. Possible hitch: Halasz, who is still fighting his year-end dismissal (TIME, Dec. 31), contends that, under his last contract, none...
Curling, a peculiar sport that had its beginnings in Scotland around 1500, is a winter version of the English game of bowling on the green. It also has shuffleboard overtones. Last week, for the first time, curling's native Scotland was invaded by a group of curlers from the U.S., where there are an estimated 4,000 confirmed addicts concentrated mainly in enthusiastic clubs around New England and the upper Middle West...
...Browning Version--at the Exeter--Michael Redgrave fills Maurice Evan's old role. About an English schoolteacher...
Every exam period, the first level smoking room of Lamont Library becomes a highbrow version of a pig sty. The sudden appearance of back copies of examinations transforms what is normally a quiet sanctum for the contemplation of good books and smoke-rings into a paper-littered mess, with exam books strewn everywhere...
...Browning Version. Britain's Michael Redgrave, as a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, in Playwright Terence Rattigan's story of an unloved master on his way out of an English public school (TIME...