Word: aldous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gioconda Smile (by Aldous Huxley; produced by Shepard Traube) was a Huxley short story and film before becoming a play. Its trick ironic plot still had a certain crude fascination on Broadway last week; and Huxley, turned playwright, was still plainly a man of parts. But The Gioconda Smile offered mournful proof of what the stage can do to harm a piece of writing and of how time can accentuate a writer's faults...
...advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...Aldous Huxley's brittle fantasy, Brave New World, a voice whispers insistently in the ears of sleeping babies, adapting future demand to future industrial production: "I do love having new clothes, I do love . . . But old clothes are beastly, we always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better...
...main work of his new volume of essays, Aldous Huxley has drawn upon the journals of an obscure French philosopher of the nineteenth century and used them as a basis for expounding his theories about the sad drift of the world. This takes up about three-fifths of "Themes and Variations"; the rest is a jumble of essays ranging from "Variations on El Greco" to a plea for population control...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Aldous Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...