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...Eliot called him "the singular poet with the delightful name." Cyril Tourneur's name is one of the few things known about the Elizabethan dramatist. In an era of prolific playwriting, he produced only two plays that have survived, The Atheist's Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy, and even the dates of his birth and death are blanks. He attained no great popularity among his contemporaries. The sole allusion to Tourneur in an old chronicle sums him up this...
That evidence was in the form of 17 different amino acids found in the meteorite and identified by a team led by Ceylonese-born Cyril Ponnamperuma, 47. Significantly, half a dozen of those amino acids are among the 20 or so that are the building blocks of proteins-and thus of all terrestrial organisms. Convinced of the discovery's importance, the NASA team boldly asserted that it is "probably the first conclusive proof-of extraterrestrial chemical evolution...
...plays the story of a young Jewish New York comedienne with a cast of well groomed aristocrats. This leads to some of the worst and the best moments of the evening. The worst: Phil Gabrielli is competent but ridiculous as suave Jewish gambler Nick Arristein. He plays him like Cyril Ritchard dipping his pinky finger into something icky. John Cook as theatrical entrepreneur Flo Ziegfeld tries hard but is equally unlikely. The best: a Ziegfeld production number called "His Love Makes Me Beautiful." Eight deadpanning preppies running around with sequined mirrors create an infinitely better satire of a Follies extravaganza...
...only has Cyril Ritchard directed the first play in the trilogy but he has also assigned to himself the delectable role of the actual historical General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne. Normally I am constitutionally opposed to anyone's functioning as director and performer in the same production: but in this instance at least, Burgoyne does not enter until well into the last...
...fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...