Word: colley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Relapse (by Sir John Vanbrugh; produced by the Theatre Guild) reached Broadway just 254 years after it first opened in London. Among the last of the Restoration comedies, it was written to refute the first of the sentimental ones-Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.* Otherwise Vanbrugh wrote with small sense of purpose and merely to entertain. The play tells two barely contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces...
...have just returned from a stay at the Stillman Infirmary. Through your newspaper I would like to express my thanks to the staff of the Infirmary and the Hygiene Department for the excellent care that I received. Donald G. Colley...