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...there ("Nothing except painting and writing is really interesting nothing can be quite so important as child bearing"). Such revelations are surrounded like desert islands by a sea of gossip: "Lord Esher has forbidden Brett to live with Gertler . . . Fame has come to me with her arms full: Lady Colefax has invited me to tea ... There's Kitty Maxse falling over the bannister and killing herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Are You There? | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Vic in New Quarters | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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