Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To Get Free Tickets. On nights when a Broadway production is baptized, none of the New York critics speaks with more effect than Justin Brooks Atkinson, 65. Part of his effect stems from the fact that he is the Times critic and part from his own reputation built through the...
Allegiance to the Theatergoer. A reporter at heart, he has always felt a stronger allegiance to the theatergoer than to the theater. A man of many interests, he has published seven books, mostly collections of casual, contemplative essays, is a chronic bird watcher and boat watcher, a part-time farmer...
¶ "We rigidly follow a formula of rewriting public speeches so as to emphasize what the reporter, sometimes with no knowledge of his own about the subject, thinks is the most important or sensational phrase."
When Kirsten Flagstad in 1935 made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Wagner's Die Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable magic" of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met's stage, and this time...
A solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, Dramatic Soprano Nilsson was discovered, as the curtain rose, pacing the deck of the ship bearing Isolde to King Mark of Cornwall; for all the world she looked like a handsome Viking figurehead. In the long, angry denunciation of...