Word: gould
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what goes on right under the roof that makes this the most thrilling circus in years. There is black-haired Rose Gould who, roped by her ankles to two men hanging by their heels, plunges from a great height to within a foot of the tanbark. There are the Idalys, he riding-upside down-a monocycle suspended from the roof, while she hangs from his teeth and does acrobatics. And there is Harold Alzana, who climbs up a half-vertical taut wire to reach the high wire, and then (blithely scorning a net) skips rope upon...
Tenting Tonight (by Frank Gould; produced by Saul Fischbein) is one of those harmless, agitated, anxious-to-please little comedies that loom big only in their blundering. It concerns a bunch of former G.I.s who can't get into a jerkwater college because they cannot find a place to live. They high-pressure a kindly prof into letting them make a flophouse of his living room; but a big-shot trustee gets mad at the idea. Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive. But the trustee...
Playwright Gould tries his darndest-occasionally with a serious plea for his warriors' peacetime welfare-clamorously, continuously, with goofiness and gags. But for some reason Tenting Tonight isn't very funny even at the rare moments when it should...
...March, Op. 99," which called for and received a great deal of refinement of interpretation especially by the trumpets made its New England debut, and Milhand's "Suite Francaise" had been played in this country only twice before. Two pleasant surprises were the muted trumpet sole in Morton Gould's "Pavanue," and the brass and reed choir effects in "Prayer of Thanksgiving." One of the high points in the way of intricate original arranging for which the Band is famous, was reached in the "Strike Up The Band" scoring for the clarinets...
Harvard Medley, by Anderson: "Suite Francaise," by Darius Milhand; Yale Medley, by Anderson; "Pavanne," by Morton Gould, "March," Op. 99, by Serge Prokefieff...