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About Twelfth Night: Margaret Webster, Maurice Evans, and company, who produced it in New York, missed up on a wonderful opportunity to present Elizabethan music in its original setting. Some of the loveliest madrigals of the age were written to the lyrics in Twelfth Night, Come Away, Sweet Death particularly, and the entire play simply cries out for an Elizabethan vocal and instrumental score. Paul Bowles' music is excellent, but no substitute for the real thing...
Labels were all mixed up. The New York Daily News went to Webster for a definition of "that shameful word, 'appeasement,' " found in Webster no shade of the shame of Munich. Since Hitler and Stalin's alliance in 1939 had set the style, there had been so many cases of ideologically strange bedfellows that the only strange thing left would be the discovery of two ideas that hadn't slept together...
...Army apparently expected smarter rookies to identify a pistol as a gun. According to Webster, a gun is "any portable firearm except a pistol or revolver...
...that failed) to tack an anti-lynching amendment on to it, which would force Southern Senators to filibuster. Unless Congress changes its mind and adjourns, the last days of one of the longest sessions in history* may end in a welter of futile harangues among the ghosts of Webster, Clay and Randolph of Roanoke...
Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...