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Late last spring, a man named Cristo--the one who stretched an orange curtain across a canyon (pictured in Life) and wrapped up the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago like a birthday present--revealed plans to stretch a long wall-like fence across the Marin Country peninsula, north of San Francisco. He ran into a lot of problems in his attempted ramble from Susuin Bay to the Ocean--not the least of which was that his route included a national seashore. The project fizzled, and all that remains are his plans. These are being presented, until October...
...knew the works of Weber and Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow Drag at the final curtain. Elsewhere one can find a waltz and even barbershop quartet. Infusing everything is Joplin's ear for melody, which made his rags so fetching and regaling...
...CURTAIN by AGATHA CHRISTIE 238 pages. Dodd, Mead...
Nonsense. What is far more likely is that at 85, Dame Agatha decided to enjoy one more triumph. If Curtain is not quite the revolutionary mystery that The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was in 1926, it is a major tour de force. Once again Christie has twisted the classic form in which she writes, and has come up with something new. Curtain is a shocker. It will cause intense, benign controversy and become an enormous bestseller. It is to be hoped that Queen Elizabeth has more ribbons in her closet to decorate this enduring and lonely symbol of British vitality...
...past decade or so, Christie's plots have become slacker and there has been a tendency toward capriciousness, which always lay just behind her virtuosity. Curtain turns back time to her great days. For a setting it goes all the way back to Styles St. Mary, where she and Poirot, her most famous creation, started out. The manor, which was once occupied by gentry, has become during World War II a rather meanly run "guesthouse," but in other respects, it is positively miraculous how little has changed since 1916. Then, as later, the action begins with the arrival...