Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agnes and Michael, the husband and wife of the piece, comprise the entire cast. Therefore, this is essentially an acting piece. As such it requires extremely accomplished character actors who can travel smoothly from their late twenties to their early sixties during a brief two hours. And being an intimate, homey piece, it is frequently performed by husband and wife teams, to catch the authentic flavor of married life...
...inevitable pressures of summer stock on a small, young, and inexperienced company; the relentless demand for an entire new production each week cannot help but produce some shaky premieres, with cues missed and whole speeches being dropped right and left. One had the sense of watching a late rehearsal rather than an actual performance, in fact, and it is therefore particularly difficult to pass judgment...
Even Tom Wolfe, the country boy from North Carolina, should have known better. Everyone lived at the Garden of Allah Hotel-everyone, that is, who was part of the Hollywood elite in the old days when the town still managed to be wacky in the grand manner. Through the late, intoxicated '20s and '30s, the Garden was more house party than hotel. Robert Benchley was resident clown; John Barrymore kept a bicycle there so as not to waste drinking time walking between the separate celebrations in the sprawling, movie-Spanish villas. Woollcott, Hemingway, Brice, Olivier, Welles, Bogart, Dietrich...
Gentlemen & Scholars. If U.S. intellectuals ever had a right to feel oppressed, says Lipset, it was in the late 19th century, when Henry Adams eloquently brooded over the rise of the so-called "robber barons." The anti-intellectualism of that day was the cold contempt of unlettered men (whose scions later gave millions to universities). The result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status...
...Winston preserves his name in brick and mortar. Four U.S. communities are named Winston Park and four Winston schools have risen on land donated by Winston. These, and a philanthropic foundation, are his monuments; he has no children. Why does he not retire? Says Winston: "It's too late to retire...