Word: rosenfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's victory against M.I.T. was by a 5-2 margin. Dodge won his match 4 and 3 against Bob Rosenfield. The Williams match was another close 4-3 score, with Dodge beating Bob Julius 2 and 1 for Julius' first defeat in two years of intercollegiate play...
...possessor of a silvery, dulcet voice, she acted the title role (an Italian girl imprisoned by a libidinous bey) with a kind of fresh, provincial charm. A onetime pianist, Mezzo Berganza has toured Europe in recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons." The whole season ended up as a love affair between Texas and Dallas' own grand opera...
Born in Dallas, the son of a well-to-do real-estate man, Rosenfield broke into the arts doing second-string reviews for the late Burns Mantle on the old New York Evening Mail, later worked as a press-agent (he once drove a covered wagon down Broadway to exploit a movie...
...Rosenfield's reviews, written with the raciness of a sportwriter's or pressagent's copy (both of which he once turned out), are backed by generally good judgment, but there are exceptions. After a local performance of George Sessions Perry's play, My Granny Van, Rosenfield told a friend of Perry's: "Remind George that I haven't forgotten that he misspelled my name" in a book Perry wrote on Texas. The next day Rosy wrote a stinging review of the play...
When he got back to Dallas, he was offered a job by a News editor who said: "You can cover City Hall. It's a Ku Klux Klan administration and we are an anti-Klan paper. Now do you want it?" Rosenfield said yes, made good at the job and later got the chance to be amusements editor. When one of his first reviews praised a local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey...