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Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein. the show is redeemingly satirical, has turned into one of the most surprising phenomena in off-Broadway history. Running since last autumn to capacity audiences, Little Mary is sold out till the end of the month, plays to theater parties and matinees in an enlarged seating capacity (from 199 to 299 seats), has its own "original cast" album (Capitol...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
...Sagan's first play, following her increasingly dull novels, is the biggest Paris hit in many seasons. Sagan's Castle in Sweden is 18th century, down to the costumes of the inhabitants, who seem like characters from a summery Watteau canvas driven inside by the chill of autumn-but the time is 1960. Dressing up is this family's mildest eccentricity. Beautiful Eleonore is devoted to her husband Hugo, but this has never prevented her from seducing every male cousin who comes to visit. Also, she has a brother who is as fond...
...surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students...
This notion is beginning to dawn even on hardheaded Broadway professionals as they seek to explain the facts: of 45 productions that have opened on Broadway since last autumn, 30 have already closed, half of them after scarcely a week. It is the most disastrous season within memory, not only financially but artistically, and few deny that the American theater suffers from a sickness of the soul...