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Private Lives has an exotic origin, an erotic icing, and a moronic plot which forces director Peter D. Arnott and his chief actors, William Franklin Hutson and Jan Lewis, to scramble desperately to salvage a basically nebbish play. Noel Coward, the first English playwright to introduce Henry Ford's assembly line production techniques to theater, wrote the comedy in 1930 while in Shanghai seemingly to pose a challenge: Who could take his featherweight literary sedative about marriage and sex in English high society and transform it into an exciting and riotous evening's entertainment? The Tufts Summer Theater company...
...Peter Arnott's staging of Lysistrata may not be the best university theatre I've seen in four years here. But I honestly can't remember anything better. It puts it all together; a simple, but visually pleasing and extraordinary functional set that, combined with Arnott's precise blocking, makes optimum use not only of the arena but of the entire theatre; a truly superior use of lighting; ingenious tinkering with the script; and acting that ranges from good to superb...
Died. Charles E. Arnott, 85, president of Socony Vacuum Oil Co. from 1931 to 1935, a brilliant salesman who in 1932 introduced the company's Flying Red Horse as a symbol of speed, power and reliability, later became something of a symbol himself when he was chosen in 1934 to help F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stabilize the industry's chaotic oil prices by pool-buying arrangements-only to find himself and other oilmen convicted on antitrust charges four years later when the Government decided they'd gone too far; of a stroke...
There are Lancashire Fusiliers, whose motto is "Bold in Everything." They got their name from fusils, which were lighter muskets than the old matchlocks. They had the honor of guarding Napoleon on St. Helena, and their Doctor Arnott attended Boney as he wasted away...
...Among the defendants: Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. and its Vice President Charles E. Arnott, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. and its Vice President Robert W. McDowell...