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Marcel, who is known as a dramatist, musician, and literary critic as well as a philosopher, pointed especially to the danger of "agnostic resignation . . . , which can effect the vividness of a philosopher's original aspirations like a kind of atmospheric blight...
...busily set about furnishing his newly acquired country seat in Sussex. Among its ornaments: redheaded Socialite Penelope Gilliat, 29, a London cinema critic and wife of Neurologist Roger Gilliatt, the best man at Princess Margaret's wedding. In response to pointed questions from Fleet Street newshawks, Dramatist Osborne offered some uncharacteristically wooden dialogue: "It is true that Mrs. Gilliatt and I brought some of our belongings here over the weekend . . . Mrs. Gilliatt will be staying here with me for some time...
...Written more than ten years ago when Durrell had only seen two plays ("And one of them was Charley's Aunt"), Sappho probably belongs on the bookshelf rather than the stage. But as a first play, it contains ample evidence that Novelist Durrell could become a major English dramatist, following his recently stated ambition to "explore the vein" of modern verse drama opened by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Christopher Fry, but "in terms of drama not morality plays, of human beings not metaphysics...
...four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private theater club). Though slow and static, the play, by British dramatist John Hart, served as an intriguing new comment on the work: spoken out loud on a stage, the Lawrencian lines simply sounded ludicrous...
...DRAMAS:, A tramp moves in with two exceedingly odd brothers in Redbriack. Dramatist Harold Pinter's The Caretaker , a hit last year in London (Oct. 4). Playwright Paddy Chayefsky is back again . This time with a contemporary treatment of the Old Testaments Gideon in which a poor farmer becomes a military genius and Fredric March walks the stage as an angel of God (Nov. 9). Broadway audiences will get their first look at much-acclaimed British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone...