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Blonde-less Bond. By last week, still intact physically-if not emotionally-were two more of the film's featured players, TV Comic (Treasure Hunt) Jan Murray and blonde Starlet Diana Millay. Diana is cast as a wilderness nurse, for there is no Jane nor love interest in Producer Weintraub's 1960s concept of the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Locations: The Pall of the Wild | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Philistia to Bohemia | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...Romantic Women Poets: "Elinor Wylie was the most crystalline . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay the most powerful and most popular. One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers: if only there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from Parnassus | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Experimental Theater production, directed by Chris Assini and produced by Austin Laughlin, kept the play simple and salvaged its suggestiveness in spite of frequent lapses in enunciation by the cast. Mr. Laughlin also helped to give a bit more rounded portrait of Millay by introducing five minutes' worth of her lyrical poetry, read with widely varying effect by five readers before the stage was brightened for Aria da Capo...

Author: By Norris Merchant, | Title: Experimental Theatre | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

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