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Trumpeters blew welcome from the stage, a standard bearer struck the first note of color and 50 singers in Renaissance dress, filed on. Conductor Sandro Benelli (brother of Poet Sem Benelli, author of The Jest) put them through their paces, helped them find pianissimos ineffably tender, failed to tie up smoothly whole sheafs of measures...
...oathsome brutality, lusty wine-quaffing, noisy swordplay, sly bedroom tactics, swoony madrigals, neurotic vengeance and gory fratricide of Medicean times, as set forth lavishly in The Jest by Playwright Sem Benelli, were last week introduced in Cleveland. It was the play's first U. S. performance outside of Manhattan, inevitably provoking whispered comparisons by those in the audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique...
...JEST-Sem Benelli's cruel Italian portrait brought back with Basil Sydney in the lead...
...delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...
Illustrious Philosopher Croce and renowned Playwright Benelli, anti- Fascists, are 100 to 1 long shots...