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Director van Itallie plans to aim his productions at a broad audience, and hopes to produce established works of various types. As possible playwrights, he listed Shakespeare, Jean Anouilh, and Ugo Betti, and musical writers Noel Coward and Kurt Weil. Special admission prices will be given to students...
...Noel Coward provides three tales of domestic tribulation, some gatling-gun dialogue and "sophisticated wit," and several of Britain's most capable comic artists take it from there--to make the current Brattle fare well worth indulgence any time this week...
Journalist Nathan's most effective weapon was not a butcher's knife but a stylist's stiletto. With malice toward some, he dubbed Noel Coward's Design for Living "a pansy paraphrase of Candida"; dismissed T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as "bosh, sprinkled with mystic cologne." Maxwell Anderson, jeered Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices...
...Slums. Heart is a gang member's most valued attribute, says Reporter Salisbury, and the coward who "punks out" is likely to be punished by his own gang; the "cheesy," or traitorous, may well be killed. Some gangs sport ladies' auxiliaries, called "debs," who not only supply sexual favors but carry their gangs' weapons as well. In times of peace, the gangs and their debs frequent neighborhood community centers and candy stores. Their favorite pastime: a slow-tempo, pelvis-to-pelvis dance called "the fish...
...FINE AND THE WICKED (223 pp.)-Monica Stirling-Coward-McCann...