Word: casting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...lyrics by Eric Crozier; produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to produce an opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...
...lifelike than lively, consisting mostly of well-proportioned heroes and heroines correctly modeled in conventional poses. Young Rodin easily licked his contemporaries at that game. His male nude Age of Bronze caused a scandal at the "Paris Salon of 1877" because the judges mistakenly supposed it must have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were comparatively chill. His line...
...intervened to break a tie among the place judges (TIME, Feb. 6). It was a matching disappointment to Manhattan FBI-Man Fred Wilt, who was ruled the winner 13 days after the race, when New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. decided that one place judge had been ineligible to cast a vote (TIME, Feb. 20). In submitting the question to representatives of its national membership, most of whom had been miles from Madison Square Garden on the night of the race, the A.A.U. was candidly calling for a decision on the officiating rather than the running. The delegates voted...
...essence of this production is its lightness and airiness but it would be even more so if some members of the cast were more confident. Milton Schlein, as the pompous Magistrate, enjoys the part, and so does buxom Martha Fontek, as Lampito. Virginia Carroll as Lysistrata occasionally forgets in the first act that comedy demands a fast and forceful delivery, but she plays with increased confidence in the second...
Idler has managed to assemble for the cast a very attractive group of young women. Often, only their presence on stage is enough to add charm to the production. In fact, the Goddess of Peace, Alice Walsh, speaks not a word, but she shines when the leader of the old men gently spanks her at the end of the play and says, "Indeed, there's a fine bottom to this Peace...