Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love's Old Sweet Song (by William Saroyan; produced by The Theatre Guild in association with Eddie Dowling). Opening the night before the New York Drama Critics Circle voted Saroyan's The Time of Your Life the best play of the season, his Love's Old Sweet Song gave the verdict a Bronx cheer. An adolescent free-for-all, with characters more like Mexican jumping beans than people, Love's Old Sweet Song is a travesty on many things, including the art of William Saroyan...
...dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute for her sarong of old and to reveal somewhat more than two inches above her knees--which fits in with the general tenor of the show in not appealing to one's intellectual perceptions. The drama closes with a honey of a finale when Scarlett O'-Lamour stages a walkout, leaving the audience just a touch in doubt (sic) as to whether or not she will ever see Tyrone again...
...entire symphony an unforgettably dramatic thing. Stokowski's prettifying turns a symphony, with its connotations of logic and coherence, into a series of lush effects. Only the most straightforward kind of treatment can bring out half the greatness in a Tchaikowski symphony, the balance and the color and the drama, and the clarity of motion, which make Brahms's symphonies sound like academic exercises...
Brilliant scenes combine these elements. The poignant refrain of "Mr. and Mrs. A.," the futile suburbanites, which haunts the action like some prophetic spectre, and its antistrophe driven home by a clique of worldly British moguls, give the drama superb and bitter satire. Never during the most intense moment in the hero's fortunes are we allowed to forget that the adventure of the mountain is but a facet, a link in the pattern of the tragedy of Everyman. Through the dramatic medium of poetry, Auden and Isherwood give a vivid universality to their characters...
...Cradle Will Rock"--Musical Drama...