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...went to Hollywood, and in ten years turned out more than a dozen films; in New York he directed Mary Martin in Lute Song and Robert Ryan in Coriolanus. Trying television, he produced Playhouse go for two seasons. Most notably, however, he was artistic director of the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., built it from an initial failure into a successful operation in four seasons. He quit in disgust two years ago when the trustees would not let him establish a permanent repertory company...
Gentle, well-mannered, the sweet strings of our Orphean lute add melody to the clamour. The Crimson is a local paper, and it will support its team. The mighty Red Sox have tasted the bitter almonds of defeat more than once, but they are ours and we cannot graciously renounce them. Simple loyalty is a more powerful force than all the serpents, who hiss the tunes of realistic appraisal. The Red Sox will endure. The noble Williams, who so justly detested his public, and whose grand saliva made rainbows inspiring to behold, is no longer with them, but they will...
...spectacle" films long enough to commission a suburban comedy of manners from Marion (Private) Hargrove and has also bought an art film, Alberto Moravia's Two Women. As a result, some of his admirers fear that he is going to give up the drum and take up the lute. But with The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah now shooting in Morocco, Joe seems in no danger. One of his current concerns, in fact, is how to publicize that movie: Mrs. Levine, he thinks, might perhaps whip up some tasteful, monogrammed pillars of salt...
...amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform...
Stern spirits by the thousandfold . . . Then, with the air of a minstrel who stills his lute and steps forward to address his audience, Graves breaks into prose: "You wish to know which of the gods originated the quarrel between these Greek princes, and how this happened? I can tell...