Word: piteous
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...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
...active fury, as when she finds a letter that her lover-now husband-thought he had destroyed. The pathetic death of her child is largely the product of a deft, gentle touch in the writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were not for the piteous way in which the heroine, after having been told by the hospital that her baby is dead, and having been spurned by her distracted husband, comes back to the wards with the threat that her husband is coming soon with a policeman, to force them to relinquish her sick child...
...regions, New York City has most actors, most trouble. Originally in charge of the region was Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect...
MARY TUDOR - Beatrice White - Macmillan ($6). A scholarly attempt to prove that "Bloody Mary" was really "piteous, persecuted, harassed, suffering"; a reply to the monstrous regiments of John Knox's accusations...
...driving off the road and crashing into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly the agent who effected purchase of this piteous plot said that its Swiss owners had "made things very difficult...