Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
...Glass Menagerie (Warner), the first Tennessee Williams play to reach Broadway, is also the first to reach the screen.* It does not live up to its stage success. Except for an "upbeat" ending, which Co-Scripter Williams reluctantly imposed on Playwright Williams at the urging of Hollywood, the film gives a reasonably faithful reading of the play. Painstakingly produced and expensively cast, it tries conscientiously to rework the frail story in movie terms. But the charm, the magic and the vague sadness of the play are lost...
Hollywood's major error may well lie in the effort to make the transfer at all. On the stage, Menagerie's human, uneventful little story was spun out like a dream in short, fragmentary scenes. Williams himself noted that it was "a memory play . . . dimly lighted . . . not realistic," and Broadway's highly stylized production caught the mood with music, transparent curtains, and shifting light and color...
...some confusion of accents, and her versatility enables her to flit coquettishly through a soft-focus flashback recounting the fancied conquests of her youth. Yet she never gives the role the emotional tug or the full measure of addled humor that it had in the hands of the stage's late great Laurette Taylor...
...Newcombe, the Brooklyn pitcher, matched Roberts until the fatal tenth when he allowed singles by Roberts and Waitkns. These, followed by Ashburn's unsuccessful sacrifice, set the stage for Sisler's winning blow...