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...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...
...singers in "The Medium" are actors also, with Marie Powers contributing a particularly fine bit as the spiritualist. The staging is unusual, with an cerie touch in the last act that has to be seen. On both these counts the very thought of the Metropolitan doing the opera is foolish, for the necessity of using old costumes and old settings and that unique operatic brand of acting on the huge Met stage would spoil Menotti's work...
...Opera for ages countless for not putting on worthwhile modern works, but in their attacks they have failed to consider a potent question: is the Met fit to present any opera except the 19th century warhorses on which it concentrates? To this operagoer, anyway, the current production of "The Medium" answers that question with a strong negative...
...aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menetti, has written operas for chamber orchestras and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lueretia," was on the Chicago stage last season. If it lands in a Broadway theatre with success equal to that of "The Medium" it will prove that Meuotti's work is more than a happy accident in musical history. It will be permanent good news for the opera and the theatre...