Word: firman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Granted, calling a piece finished is the hardest step for an author to take; but it is a necessary step. No one appreciates the house manager's offering a prologue that says in effect: this production isn't "official." Firman Houghton's new play, The Portable Tiger, is an entertaining one that could have amused far more people than the fortunate few who saw it this weekend. And the playwright would have learned a great deal more from a wider crowd; limited audiences are limiting...
...MacDonald's anthology. I ought to mention Henry Reed's "Chard ("As we get older we do not younger"), better even than parodies of Eliot, and of Gertrude Stein that a MacDonald informs us is the dying words of Dutch . Also, I should have thought to parody Robert yet Firman Houghton has go to Boston, see the up and down again, and "That's the way with and with people." He closes don't get me wrong. I wouldn...
...Hammer of the Mountain, by Firman Houghton is subtitled "A Grave Comedy in Three Acts." The feeble pun on "grave" is the only display of wit in Mr. Houghton's thick, pretentious, muddled and terribly fashionable play. The first act, thanks largely to Stephen Aaron's direction, had promise. The setting was an old abandoned farmhouse used simultaneously as a secret meeting place for a pair of lovers and the headquarters for mock army maneuvers, and the dialogue, some of it funny, is about what is real (the war games) and what is not (Isabel, the girl, waiting for Charlie...
...Theatre has already completed casting for its production of Hammer of the Mountain, an original, experimental play by Firman Houghton, editor of Audience magazine. Stephen Aaron '57, assistant director of Loeb, will direct the play. Rehearsals begin...
...play will be "Hammer of the ," by Firman Houghton, editor magazine, with Aaron described by Aaron as a comedy serious intent, the play is about a battle in an army camp...