Word: sol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious arts have been paving the way for larger and larger doses. "This is integration of great cultural entertainment that at this point the general public does not like. By integrating it into lighter forms, we think we've been able to create an audience for it ... If Sol Hurok did an evening of unforgettable music, it would be the sort of thing we want . . . We could sit down right now and say, Okay Ernest Hemingway, it's a deal...
...Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress...
...Manhattan last week, the movies were making opera seductively easy to take. In Sol Hurok's Aida (see CINEMA), the young, beautiful Ethiopian slave girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French...
...Aida (Sol Hurok; I.F.E.). Italian film makers have released eight filmed operas to U.S. art houses in the past seven years. Some of them translated into fairly acceptable films. Aida, with its vivid Ferraniacolor, its monumental settings of ancient Memphis, its popular and dramatic music, its handsome acting cast and its standout (mostly invisible) singing cast, aims at being the grandest assault yet on U.S. eyes and ears...
Edith Steinberg, in a not too difficult role, strikes the mean for this production and is most able, but without real distinction. And just a cut below Miss Steinberg, but in considerably less difficult or lengthy roles, are Mary Crocker and Sol Schwade. The rest of the cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...