Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marguerite Tarrant's Lorraine is a striking portrayal of a high-living, overglamorous star. And she is pleasant to look at in her stunning dresses and jewelry. John Wolfson brings the proper affectation to the part of a thinly-disguised Noel Coward; and Erich Segal is a colorfully mad Hollywood type...
...opening of a theater in Pest (later part of Budapest). The music is mostly as neglected as the play itself-a fantasy about Minerva awakening after 2,000 years to find Athens in ruins and the last vestiges of culture preserved in Hungary. The work unfolds in a pleasant but innocuously declamatory style that only occasionally echoes Beethoven's sterner periods. Nevertheless, a must for Beethoven followers...
...horn and a tuba huff their way through the once enormously popular brass works of several composers, some famed, most of them forgotten-Tielman Susato, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antony Hoiborne, Johann Petzold, Henry Purcell. The burnished sound is properly refulgent, and the flowering, agile compositions themselves will come as a pleasant surprise to many a listener accustomed to the statelier, stuffier uses of modern brass...
...third offering of the season The Boston Summer Playhouse is presenting a pleasant, if not exceptional production of Jan de Hartog's The Fourposter. This amusing account of the hills and valleys of married life is really a delightful and tightly written little play. The plot covers thirty-five years of marriage, including the embarrassment of the wedding night, the birth of the first child, the problems with the teenage children, the "other woman," and finally the mellow maturity of middle...
...policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race, creed or color." But Dr. Bunche had no plans to push Ralph Jr. through the West Side's newly opened door. He had amply proved his point. "This has not been a pleasant experience, and I'm glad it is over," said Bunche Sr. "In this community, happily, bigotry cannot long stand the heat of public exposure...