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...never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play in his life (The Male Animal). He is so innocent of the theater that he called one of his TV shows The Cherry Orchard and was flabbergasted to learn that a writer named Chekhov had beaten him to the title by almost half a century. For backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo Times (where he started as a copy boy), the Birmingham...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...
...exams, football weekends, and the faculty that brought occasional giggles from classmates. He described how a history major wrote on his exam that a triple entente was a large club sandwich at the Wursthaus, a Math major proved the earth was a triangle, and an English concentrator claimed Anton Chekhov ran a delicatessen in Brooklyn...
...miss the explanatory preface, it could be any one of a number of things, from a perverse drawing room comedy to an analytical discussion of illusion and reality. For, unlike Shaw's earlier work, Heartbreak House is not a well-made, coherent play. With a gay abandon reminiscent of Chekhov, the characters wander on and off stage, chattering seeming irrelevancies (which are resolved in the final act when the allegory becomes clear), but never contributing to the development of the plot...
...Chekhov play, "A Tragedian in Spite of Himself" will be directed by John Kerr '52. Michael Mabry '53 will play the part of the tragedian, and Donald Stewart '53 will play his friend. The second play will be Shaw's. "The Shewing Up of Blanche Posnit," to be directed by Irving Yoskowitz '53 and produced by shop productions. It offered the first last February