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...insists that the boy is only sampling life and will turn out well. When Berry-berry unexpectedly shows up at home, the Williamses have a brief interlude of unaccustomed happiness. He falls in love with a nice girl, and even though he is coolly running a brothel in a nearby town, it seems that he is about to go straight at any moment. The presence of love in the house transforms all the Williamses. Clinton finds almost nothing worth putting into his notebooks, since happiness is so dull, but it affects and even excites...
...obvious as it is worthy; the means of getting it across makes unfailingly good reading. Author Herlihy (Blue Denim, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson) plays with a kind of hurt tenderness over every desperate human confrontation. With originality, freshness and economy he can convey the seediness of a brothel, a strip joint, a hotel room-never once trying for the sensational or playing up the shoddy for its own sake. Having skillfully drawn the Williamses as offbeat types, he makes it effectively plain in the end that what makes them important is not their oddness but their kinship to humanity...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...
...Balcony. French Playwright Jean Genet sets this monument of dramatic mockery in a brothel, almost proves his point that there are two main classes of people on earth: whores and their clients...
...acting as the woman. To a Westerner, the snail-paced story seems more often theatrically trite than poetically touching. On the other hand, the final play-telling of a rich provincial who falls in love with a courtesan and tries, with tragic consequences, to buy her out of her brothel-has not only pictorial charm but genuine story and character interest. Here Grand Kabuki conveys very well the theatrical vividness-and the esthetic purity-of its method, without any hint of vulgarity. And though the Kabuki method, by making a ceremony of the mere uttering of platitudes or repeating...