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Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes instead of 180. As audiences were sucked in, pushed out of the enormous Hippodrome, it was seen that U. S. citizens who read tabloid newspapers, chew tabloid gum, can appreciate grand opera when its glories are compressed...
...Miss Jane Cowl, I understand, has praised 'Desire Under the Elms.' She declares it to be a great play, and that it teaches a great moral lesson. You know the plot, I suppose. That plot is typical--all too typical of the sort of thing that is being exploited in New York. Producers insist on neurotic plays, plays that means something. The public or a very definite part of it, supports them...
Laying the blame for the resent assault on him in Charles' Lunch to a band of gangsters headed by an archbully, Herr Engel in a letter to the CRIMSON appeals to the forces of law and order to stop the plot before it is carried out. In an unpublishable appendix to the letter, Herr Engel supports his case with an account of the gang's conversation which contains, among other things, the challenge to Herr Engel, which led up to the assault...
...This fight thrust upon me is a plot of gangsters who are hired by a crafty bully of a leader who pays their meal checks and poets them at the door, and like yeggs they will come to the assistance of their leader when he has been floored. Conveniently appearing as helpers and then as peacemakers does not change the fact that the fight lasted twenty minutes. The gang blocked business; they did not pay and they got their instructions three times from the bully. Rum, Riot and Rebellion come nearer, but Anarchy and Chaos, Conspiracy are the words which...
...police cannot arrest the drunken thug, if they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself...