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...FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. Rivera confounded capitalists and Communists alike with his preposterous stories and visionary murals, but Biographer Wolfe wisely takes the artist's exuberant imagination as the surest cue to the man and his work...
...coolly coexisted in the years since. During an economic crisis in which he successfully resisted Cabinet pressure to curtail the government's newfangled social services, Rab said pointedly: "We have lived too long on old port and overripe pheasant." On another occasion, he gave John F. Kennedy a cue by exhorting the voters "not just to think you are going to get something out of government; think what you can do for your country." As an imaginative Home Secretary from 1957 to 1962, Rab trimmed "the Victorian whiskers" from the betting and licensing laws and was praised as warmly...
...Pianist Gary Graffman, "and I drifted to the back of the hall." Things were better there, but Schonberg resolved once again to change his seat. "My apologies to Graffman," he wrote, "and a promise that I will catch his next recital-from a more favorable location." Taking a cue from the maestro a week later, a colleague on the Times offered three different reviews of the same recital, reporting in from seats N1, D311 and PP106...
Rice's first play was On Trial, produced in 1914. His iconoclastic Street Scene came along in 1929, followed by Dream Girl in 1946; his latest (and 27th) was Cue for Passion, which had a five-week run in 1959. Almost 50 years of writing, directing, traveling and -according to his boast-lovemaking, should have supplied material for still another play-or even a good book.But Rice has always given the best lines to somebody else...
...suppose the Connecticut Stratfordians thought the Shaw play a valid choice since the title characters were both treated by Shakespeare. But where is this to end? Shall we in future find them putting on Kiss Me, Kate and The Boys From Syracuse? And then Elmer Rice's Hamlet-based Cue for Passion, with afternoon showings of the movie Joe Macbeth...