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Troilus and Cressida is the tragedy of the daughter of a soothsayer who was faithless to his native city and was banished to the Greek lines for his unfavorable interpretation of the oracle. While he was gone, his daughter, beautiful beyond compare...
...whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...
...clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished. She makes her mouth piece-heroine a character unmentioned by Homer-Cressida, daughter of the Trojan's Chief Priest of Apollo, ill-famed in literature (by Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare) as a heartless jilt. Chosen as a central character because her "legendary real" identity offers the widest freedom for creating a sensitive female observer, Laura Riding's Cressida is not jilt...
Approaching Honolulu in his yacht the Cressida, George Vanderbilt his wife and three friends put on bathing suits, put off in a speedboat and skimmed ashore. Next day the Vanderbilts & friends were fined $500 each for evading customs inspection...
...PLAYS & POEMS OF W. S. GILBERT- Random House ($3.50). RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME-edited by Prentiss N. Gray- Derry dale Press ($10). RIDING REFLECTIONS-Piero Santini- Derrydale Press ($10). THE SILVER HORN-Gordon Grand- Derrydale Press ($7.50). TENNIS ORIGINS & MYSTERIES-Malcolm D. Whitman - Derrydale Press ($10). TROILUS & CRESSIDA-Geoffrey Chaucer -Random House ($3.50). See below. THE WESTERN PONY-William R. Leigh -Huntington Press...