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...many previous examples of deranged mentality, he might find this study of a strapping youngster who knifes his mothers because she makes him kill chickens too often grimly entertaining, ridiculous as it sounds in synopsis. But it unfortunately follows a story called "The Cottage With Ducks in Normandy," by Austryn Wainhouse. Towards the end of his tale, one of Wainhouse's characters, "faintly aware of some unbalance or maladjustment or something or other, tries very hard and with mighty sincerity to understand; he feels as if he should be compelled by all this display to know something; is all this...
...criticism in the Advocate's first issue is restricted to two recent American novels. Robert Crichton's review of "Under the Volcano" is sharp and convincing; he understands the shortcomings of the book and knows how to write about them. Austryn Wainhouse, reviewing Steinbeck's latest, writes well, but is hampered rather than helped by the superfluous toels of the professional reviewer...
...Again in Austryn Wainhouse's "The Cigarette Lighter," the addition of editorial perspective to the author's marked literary and dramatic talents could have saved the story from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort of war neurosis leaves the reader impressed and bewildered. If there had been no attempt at symbolism, if Wainhouse had limited himself to a simple character sketch, the story would have been clear and good. Once he decided to have the cigarette lighter mean something, he should have made...
Elected to the Executive Committee were Andrew McCollough '45, Robert Lubchansky '48, and Austryn Wainhouse '48, respectively director, co-star, and manager of "Adam the Creator," and William West '49, director of HDC's reading theatre. The President, Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer are automatically members of this committee...
Faced with the problem of destroying the world in the first scene and still leaving Sanders intact for subsequent performances, the production crew will include Paul Burgraff '48, chairman, and Yardley D. Buckman '49, William D. Warters '49, Austryn Wainhouse '48, and David Michael...