Word: amiel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three and One (adapted from the French of Denys Amiel by Lewis Galan tière and John Houseman; William Harris Jr., producer). The fact that most young women have a practical, an intellectual and a physical side to their nature is the basis for this uncertain parable which was apparently meant to be a bedroom farce but emerged as a mystery play. A matronly ballerina named Lois Valois has had three sons by assorted fathers. Arthur is a banker, all he thinks about is money; Paul is a composer, all he thinks about is music; Charles is an athlete...
...AMIEL'S PHILINE-Translated by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Henri Frederic Amiel's (1821-81) chief claim to fame is that he wrote a diary. Enough of its 16,000 pages have been published to prove its author one of the most fully confessed men in history. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Geneva, director of Geneva's Conservatoire, author of a few volumes of bad verse, friend of women, he led a not-unmethodical life, let hardly a day pass without recording his actions microscopically in his journal. First partly published...