Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Till Eulenspiegel (U.S. premiere), set to the raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole...
...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...
...Ford regime. Last week, in a 25? paper book entitled We Never Called Him Henry, co-written by Free-Lance Writer Paul Marcus, tight-lipped Harry Bennett finally broke his silence, explaining: "I want to try to set the record straight." Nobody but Bennett knows how straight his version of the record is (several publishers in Manhattan were afraid to publish the book). In putting his best foot forward, Bennett freely knees and heels his former associates. Nevertheless, he provides the most intimate look yet given at the astonishing way the Ford empire was run for 30 years...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Drei-sci's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...
...Holy Sinner, by Thomas Mann. A medieval version of the Oedipus legend with a happy ending; retold with affectionate irony and a new twist or two (TIME, Sept...