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...Countess Cathleen is not only the first play written by William Butler Yeats, but also the first play of the great Irish Renaissance. It is fundamentally a charming peasant fable, embroidered with beautiful threads of words, and although it lacks the more open humor and the more dignified grandeur of much of Synge, or of the later Yeats plays, it obtains strength from its air of simplicity, from the purity of the mythical tale its tells...
...scene is laid in Ireland and in old times," and the peasants all around are starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been...
...Shepherd through the "Crazy Jane" poems. Later came selections from James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Brian Merriman, Padraic Pearse, the prolific Anonymous, and others. With the able assistance of Colgate Salsbury '57 (on temporary loan from Elsinore), she also included the love scene from Yeats' early Faustian drama, The Countess Cathleen...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Sister, starring Vincent Price, Cathleen Nesbitt, Gladys Cooper...
...COCKTAIL PARTY (Decca; $9.98) and MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Angel; $9.98). Eliot's two best plays: the first in a prancing recitation by the original New York cast (Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel); the second read with less than majesty but more than dignity by Robert Donat and the Old Vic company...