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From Britain, the Royal Shakespeare Company is bringing Harold Pinter's success, The Homecoming, and Peter Weiss's The Investigation, a courtroom documentary about Nazi war crimes. Dinner at Eight, the 1932 collaboration of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will be served once again, this time with so many stars (Robert Burr, Ruth Ford, Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, among others) that the cast is to be billed alphabetically and refereed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Explaining his first Broadway directing job since he left for the Minnesota Theater Company in 1960, Guthrie says...
...passersby the impression that he was a maintenance man. The elevator stops at the 27th floor; Whitman lugged his bizarre cargo up three flights of steps to the 30th floor. There, at a desk next to the glass-paneled door that opens onto the observation deck, he encountered Receptionist Edna Townsley, 47, a spirited divorcee and mother of two young sons. Whitman bashed her head in, probably with a rifle butt, with such force that part of her skull was torn away, also shot her in the head. Then he left her behind a sofa...
...EDNA VON HILLEBRANDT San Juan...
...easy man to write about, but Braddon has made the most of meager information. Myopic but energetic, Thomson went to work at 14 for a rope factory, where he soon exhibited a "passionate devotion to money." He took time off only to marry a red-haired girl named Edna. "One of the best selling jobs I ever done," he commented...
Best of all are the palindromic sentences (Dennis and Edna sinned; Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus...