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...theme dominates all the others. How great, he asks, is the responsibility of each man for the welfare of his fellows? The answer to this overwhelming question is a dramatized version of the biblical Golden Rule, set as a costume piece during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The protagonist of the play is a brash but cowardly deserter from the Hungarian army who takes refuge in the home of his former mother-in-law. That lady, a countess and sort of philosophical fairy godmother, teaches him what he should have learned in Sunday school and provides him with a brand...
...printer, Clinton died. Now published for the first time, it seems doubtful that Englishmen of his own generation would have found it more convincing than it seems today. Simply as history, it is a fascinating look at the War of the Revolution through the eyes of a British protagonist. But it is almost equally fascinating, flossy style and all, as an unconscious giveaway of character weakness, an inadvertent confession of a general who planned much and acted little, almost passively accepted defeat from a rabble in arms and left the final explanation to his persecution complex...
Beagle for the NKVD. Feodor Novikov, protagonist of The Fall of a Titan, is only 16 when the revolution comes to Rostov in October 1917 and claims his parents among its first victims. Bent on survival, young Feodor informs on a starving army officer and learns that the way to get ahead in the new people's paradise is to curry favor with the Marxists. Soon he is an unofficial beagle for the NKVD, spying on his fellow students. Later, as a lecturer at the University of Rostov, he keeps tabs on his faculty colleagues. Chafing with ambition, Feodor...
...angel in the pantomime ballet, Bronia Sielewicz is regal and lovely; on the other hand, Rod Davis, the protagonist, is slow and awkward in a role that calls for deft, light dancing. Monotonous narration by Jack Rogers also slowed the play's pace...
...most of the world's bassos, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is operatic boodle, and they will go to considerable lengths to sing it in public. Its protagonist not only gets to wear some of opera's most magnificent costumes, but he has two long and meaty scenes in which to show off the full richness of his voice, rave through a couple of bloody hallucinations, and finally fall dead down a flight of stairs. Last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, the part was taken by Jerome Hines, 32, the first U.S.-born basso...