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Last week the statue was taken from its shell and gently laid out in a truck to be transported to a grander location in Frederick's graceful palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam. Barely had the trip got under way when the truck broke down; the Reds announced that Frederick would be temporarily restored to his old pedestal, but that glory at Sans Souci still awaited...
...third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings and big voices demand a grander canvas than Menotti now chooses to paint his tight little operas on. Moreover, the Met audience, to him, is "not an audience but a habit...
...Ponder coming like a lumberjack to dinner. At the finish it was Ponder by a length, with Two Lea second and the rest nowhere. Jimmy Jones felt better. If Citation should fail, Miche and the others would still have Ponder-and Two Lea-to beat in the Hundred-Grander...
...sets (notably those around its drugstore corner) put together by someone who knew sidestreet architecture and atmosphere. By even so modest a merit-and by trying to be nothing more than the slight time killer it is-Tension manages to be more entertaining than some of Hollywood's grander products...
...time it was finished. By then he had struck up an acquaintance with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and had been reading Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. Melville was so fired by such investigations of the human spirit that he decided to transform his own whaling story into something grander. He would "turn blubber into poetry...