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With Pete Seeger gone, Lee Hays is certainly the outstanding individual artist in the group. Despite a bad cold Saturday, his resonant bass voice and his physical immensity gave both color and humor to the performance. Serving as emcee, he kept the concert moving with droll introductions...
...vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said...
Divorced. Sir Laurence Olivier, 53 ; and Vivien Leigh, 47 (Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth); after 20 years of marriage, no children; by decree nisi, in London, where in the same court, on the same day, Joan Plowright, 29, droll, saucer-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey, The Entertainer), was divorced from Actor Roger Gage, 30, after seven years of marriage, no children. Both actions proceeded with classic Noel Cowardy coolness. Miss Leigh admitting adultery in Ceylon, Sir Laurence admitting adultery with Miss Plowright in London, and Gage admitting adultery in Helsinki. Court costs of the fourway, jet-speed split were...
Died. Bellamy Partridge, 82, onetime lawyer, journalist, editor, novelist, and droll chronicler of turn-of-the-century Americana, whose 13th book and first success, Country Lawyer, nostalgically portrayed his father and life in an upstate New York village, became a bestseller in 1939-40 and a movie, was followed by ten other works, including two on the automobile-Excuse My Dust and Fill 'Er Up!; of a stroke; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...with Sancho Panza in Strauss' Don Quixote. (This production even includes the actual dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes and fairies, Bazelon has composed more droll music--for tambourine and bass drum, with ludicrous oom-pahs in the brass...