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...finishing a film in Australia, and Father Sir Michael Redgrave, 68, opened last week in The Hollow Crown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Arriving in New York City, he hastened to congratulate youngest daughter Lynn Redgrave, 30, for scoring her second success on Broadway, as the demon slimmer of My Fat Friend. Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent." · Dinner with the boss is the kind of awkward evening that wives have to learn to cope with. But Nancy Maginnes Kissinger, 39, seemed to take...
...France, for instance, has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world (an estimated 10% to 12% of the population, including some children), and the Soviet Union may not be far behind. Soviet newspapers now blame 60% of their country's murders, holdups and burglaries on that old demon vodka. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev mused: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka...
...understood and enjoyed by the interested layman." Included in the gift are some of the most striking South Indian bronzes and stone carvings of the 8th to 11th centuries left in private hands, such as a 10th-llth century figure of Krishna dancing on the hood of the cobra-demon Kaliya, holding up the creature's tail in a ripple of bronze like a Malay kris, and the majestic, decapitated Female Torso from llth century Cambodia, an image as silent and epigrammatic as any archaic Greek kouros...
...WOOD DEMON. This seldom produced Chekhov play is known in theatrical texts chiefly as an early version of Uncle Vanya. The familiar characters are here: the young doctor obsessed by forest conservation; the fractious old scholar and his bored young wife; Daughter Sonia and Brother-in-Law George (later called Vanya), who are remnants of his life with his dead first wife. There are five more major characters in this version who are elided or eliminated when Chekhov created a masterpiece out of the same material...
...mistake to think of Wood Demon only as a sketchbook for Uncle Vanya. On its own it is an exuberant, if somewhat raveled play. Anyone who has ever watched Vanya or The Three Sisters and wished against all his better aesthetic judgment that one of the attractive, complicated, inhibited egotists would break out and change his lot, will find his fantasies acted out on stage. Though George-played commandingly by Tenniel Evans-shoots himself, Chekhov provides not one but two sets of happy young lovers at the final curtain. In the last act, the young wife, who has briefly left...