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Paris' Raymond Duncan, exoatriate brother of Dancer Isadora, headed for San Francisco on his first visit to hu old home town in 38 years, stopped off en route at Los Angeles, in flowing Grecian robes, sandals, long hair and all, and explained his philosophy of actionalism: "I'm not teaching-I'm living a philosophy. I'm like a rabbit on a vivisection table: I'm living...
...here, and Athens (California) is his home town; but these are the only classical touches in an otherwise humdrum production. This probe into the lusty bustle of Washington confusion is constructed along lines so directly opposite to plays dealing with the other Athens that all references to Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach...
Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...
...finest theatrical craftsmen of his day, and Electra has a gnashing vitality. The cinemadaption is, as Playwright O'Neill himself concedes, "magnificent." The rough edges of the incestuous theme have been ground smooth in the dialogue without losing a jot of theatrical shock. The Grecian mood, though it echoes rather tinnily through the New England characters, reverberates grandly on the super-loud sound track, in what O'Neill calls the "sumptuous simplicity" of the Mannon mansion, in the classic drape of the costumes, in the still, pure lighting of the picture...
Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...