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...cents, the best play in London is not English at all. The Count of Clerembard, a French satire by Marcel Ayme, is a thorough delight and will soon be brought to America. Clive Brook, as the Count, is a bestial huntsman converted by a miracle to equally vehement Christianity. He decides that his son must marry that humblest of all creatures, the town prostitute (played by Mai Zetterling). Without sacrificing any humor, the play deepens from farce to genuine reverence. Its unresolved conclusion, called by one London critic "seatty and sacreligious," is just the opposite, if there is an antonym...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Circling the Circus | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

...grass was green . . . And green and golden, I was huntsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...weak and ill-starred king who showed himself energetic only as a huntsman, Philip ruled France from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shout in the Dark | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A DYLAN THOMAS SAMPLER | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...hounds in your picture will be moved off at a steady trot by a few short notes on the horn, when huntsman is ready to go draw the next covert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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