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Alex Tamkin stayed close to the theme of Ansky's tragedy for his English libretto, produced what the brothers call "a story of Romeo and Juliet set forth in ... cabalistic symbolism." An impoverished young Talmudic scholar named Channon wants to marry Leah, the daughter of a practical bourgeois type who thinks his daughter can do a lot better. Torn with love and bitterness, Channon studies mystic books, tampers with the supernatural, and is struck dead. But he returns as a dybbuk, to inhabit the body of Leah herself, just as she is presented with her wedding veil...
...hour and a half later the course, which included Tallulah's rumbling rendition of Juliet's balcony scene on the hotel stairway, was over and memories were considerably freshened. One waiter muttered in stark wonder: "Nothing like this has ever happened here before...
Died. Constant Lambert, 45, British composer, conductor, author; of diabetes; in London. At 20, he wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington...
...effects were removed at the same time. On the bedside desk remained only a calling card (General of the Army Douglas MacArthur), and a large photograph of Miss Davies, which he had always kept beside him. It was inscribed "To W.R. from Marion," with a quotation from Romeo and Juliet...
Meanwhile, Central City doesn't mind being small and candidly experimental. The cost of producing four operas during a four-week season this year (the two one-acters plus Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Donizetti's Don Pasquale) is budgeted at $110,000. Ticket sales will cover most of this; subscriptions and other activities (including the opera association's hotel and bar profits) should make up the rest. Last year's deficit...