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...Dudley House spring production "Softly Like a Flower" has been canceled because of charges that the author wrote the play to get revenge on several former Harvard classmates. The play, written by Philip Stone '62, was scheduled to run April 10-13 at Agassiz Theater...
...that he is 37, Mel Tormé can look back with ease upon a bountiful life in music: lots of money, dozens of cars, two wives, three psychiatrists. In person, though, he has always been a sour-luck man whose glance wilts a flower. As a result, he managed to overwhelm his great talents as crooner, composer, actor, drummer, pianist and arranger and become an engaging failure. Good old Mel, his friends in music say, the public never liked him. But he is also a singer of jazz, and in that difficult and unfriendly medium, he has lately become...
...they are aware of another Frost, the Frost of that small, chilling masterpiece called Design, which offers a vision, in miniature, of active malevolence in the world. After finding a moth killed by a white spider lying in wait and masked by a white flower that usually is blue. Frost asks...
What had the flower to do with being white...
Marceau has obviously tutored himself on early Charlie Chaplin. The Little Tramp wore a derby; Marceau's Bip character sports a dented stovepipe hat. In The Tramp's hand was a flower; from Bip's hat sprouts a rose. Both share the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt is. In nursing that hurt, Marcel Marceau shows himself to be a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence...