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...Cripple of Inishmaan is one of a handful of plays by a new generation of young playwrights whose work has captured the attention of the British press and public and is making its presence felt in London this summer. All in their 20s and early 30s, they are seen as part of a literary "renaissance," which is being widely compared to the angry-young-man generation of British playwrights that emerged in the years just after World War II. Together they seem to be changing the theatergoing habits of a decade, attracting young audiences and inculcating the idea that going...
DIED. ALEXANDRA DANILOVA, 93, ballet's radiant empress who left Russia in 1924 but never defected from its classical dance traditions; at her home in New York City. Orphaned at three, Danilova fell in love with the stage. At the Ballet Russes in the 1920s and '30s, she soared as Odette in Swan Lake and sizzled as the street dancer in Le Beau Danube. As a teacher at the School of American Ballet, she inspired generations of dancers. "I sacrificed marriage, children and country to be a ballerina," she wrote, "and there was never any misunderstanding on my part...
...Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much, "but I still can't believe it. And I can't stand it." Now only Katharine Hepburn, Stewart's blithe siren in The Philadelphia Story, is left to exemplify the glamour and idealism of Hollywood in its golden '30s...
...neurotic as the Stewart character could be, it was for the most part anti-erotic. Smart city gals (Hepburn, Sullavan, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, nearly the whole fabulous constellation of '30s star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...
That Other Beltway, by contrast, gets part of its flavor from the naive egocentrism of brainy teenage boys. (Bellenson and Sasson are not good examples. Check out the Website of software billionaire Paul Allen if you want a taste.) Inside this Beltway some grownups in their 20s and 30s are still obsessed with Captain Kirk. If they have any political interest, it's a lingering passion for Ayn Rand. And this Beltway's spectacular success keeps it, and them, every bit as isolated from the rest of the country as the Beltway at the other end of Highway 50. Neither...