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...allow his masterpiece to be photographed unless the music went with it, but Gallo did not drop the idea. Last week, with characteristic enterprise, he presented Pagliacci, in Italian, without color, made by his San Carlo singers and backed by his own funds: the cinema's first full-length grand opera...
Somebody was bound to start fun-poking at the late greatly ballyhooed Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Vaudevillian Fred Allen has already made Manhattan audiences laugh about it in Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming...
...deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running a city beauty parlor. Both have daughters. One daughter steals the other's sweetheart...
...public prints seemed doubtful, unconvincingly called it "music on the grand scale" or echoed Critic Herbert Hughes's (London Daily Telegraph) florid romantics, printed in the program. Reflective listeners decided Launcelot might be more effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue, Strauss's ghastly, gay, Till Eulenspiegels...
...winner of the annual fall tennis tournament last fall, was winner of the Massachusetts State Doubles Championship, just completed at the Newton Center Squash and Tennis Club. The victorious paid in the final round defeated G. E. Abbott and W. W. Weld '16, former state titlists, by a full-length match...