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Something novel in Shakespearean recordings has been introduced in the Margaret Webster "Romeo and Juliet," put out by the Atlantic Recording Corporation. For the first time a conscious effort has been made to recreate, as much as possible, the atmosphere of an actual theatrical production of the play. To do this, Miss Webster uses a battery of four super-sensitive microphones, set up in footlight fashion before the actors. The result of this new technique is greater freedom of movement, and Miss Webster's goal of achieving the feeling of a stage performance is partially accomplished...
...Barnhart, this "historical" method in an ordinary desk dictionary seems absurd. A bank, says he, is not first of all "the table or counter of a moneychanger" as Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary lists it. In Barnhart's book, it is "an institution for keeping, lending, exchanging, and issuing money...
...famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...
After the curtain went up on opening night, the firing diminished. Bing began with a brand-new production of Verdi's Don Carlo, rebuilt from scratch with brilliant new sets and costumes, and staged by bright Broadway Director Margaret Webster. He quickly followed that with an entirely new mounting of The Flying Dutchman, done almost equally well. To make a full season, Bing had to reach into the standard repertory (and the warehouse) for operas he had had neither time nor money to rebuild, e.g., Tristan, Faust, Trovatore, Traviata. But except for Traviata and Faust, which most critics panned...
...Miss Webster, whose company was among the first to employ Negroes together with whites in major roles, also cautioned against using members of minorities in parts artificially in conflict with the author's conception of the role. She also warned that attempts to suppress productions which showed individual members of minorities in an unfavorable light can be carried to an extreme which could make all theatre ridiculous...