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...great obscenity of politics decelerated Brecht's impact upmodern theater, and yet few seri critics, East or West, deplore fact that the playwright stooped elf in Marxist philosophy. For, ily, Answers in Brecht's plays second place to Questions, and ctical training provided him with a needed technique for ironically confronting reality. The intense study of Marxism which he undertook in the late 20's, imparted an intellectual discipline to his outlook and to his style...
...scene in which an aging trollop recounts her favorite dream. "I get married to a man 84 years old," she says wistfully. "He has a little money, and-do I get a rest!") Dassin himself, a man with the curious, worldly-otherworldly face of a middle-aged elf, is always amusing to watch. And mercurial Mercouri, a sort of Levantine Carmen Miranda, embodies with phenomenal vitality the philosophical premises of the film: 1) know-how is not necessarily power; 2) money cannot buy anything that really matters; 3) the only way to save the world is to love the people...
Married. Imogene Fernandez y Coca, forty-fiveish. elf-eyed TV, stage and nightclub comedienne; and Actor King Donovan, 41; after a summer stock stage-marriage tour in The Fourposter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. Fred Demara Jr., the blubbery elf who changes identities as other men change shirts, sketched in an amusing biography...
Behan's thunderous and immediate success was on the scale of another bedeviled elf, the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. But unlike Thomas, who wanted both porter and her daughter, Playwright Behan has stuck to the porter; and while it goes to his head with staggering frequency, nothing else has. His complete curtain speech in London, after he had watched Quare Fellow's opening in the company of two playgoers from Scotland Yard, was a classic: "I've been under guard here. I need a drink badly. Please forgive me." Two years ago, invited to appear...