Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvatore Cortesi, now living in retirement in Florence, gave the A.P. a world beat on the death of Pope Leo XIII in 1903. But he is best remembered by the A.P. for the character references he gave to an American surety company: "Giuseppe Sarto - Occupation: Pope; Victor Emmanuel - Occupation: King...
With a star-spangled dramatis personae including Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Victor Moore, William Bendix, Jerry Colonna, and Robert Benchley, "It's in the Bag" sounds like a funnyman version of the Warner and MGM gargantuas, but is instead a movie version of the Texaco Star Theater, complete with Mrs. "No-o-o-o?" Noosbaum...
...Arthur Sullivan; produced by Max Gordon). Hard on the heels of Memphis Bound (TIME, June 4), which throws a monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
...show sadly lacks the bounce, pace, bodily movement that should go with a musical. Chained to one set, it does not even-except except for a lively Antony Tudor ballet - rattle its chains with dancing. The show boils down, in the end, to some smart lyrics, snappy lines, Victor Moore's mis cast charm, Shirley Booth's comic poise, Annamary Dickey's singing, Viola Essen's dancing - and Sullivan's delightful but rather dry-docked score...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Alexander Kipnis and Ilya Tamarin with the Victor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Nicolai Berezowsky and Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A great Russian opera becomes one of the great operatic recordings. Almost too carefully abridged, the album nevertheless keeps fine dramatic continuity. Kipnis' voice is monumental in the ominous clock scene and in the death finale. Performance and recording: excellent...