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Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1920-vintage, Pirandellesque "Aria da Capo" was presented last Saturday and Sunday at the Loeb Experimental Theater. The play was one-act, lasting a bit over twenty minutes. The audience at the first performance didn't in fact realize the play was over when it came to an end. They waited for more, not because they expected an explicit disentanglement of the sketch's nebulous events--probably they had already become familiar with the promising ambiguities of Pinter, Ionesco, Adamov, Genet--but because the classics of the theatre of the abstract have been long-winded...
Soon he is at Harvard, and famous people, including Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, are reading his poetry-he notes their verdict, "that I can do a lot if I don't give up and write advertisements." He is also reading and talking prodigiously, beginning to drink, and looking for "a permanent cure for the irrational side of my unhappiness...
LOEB EXPERIMENTAL THE--ATER: Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo" will be presented at the Experimental Theater on Saturday at 3 p.m. and three times on Sunday, at 3, 7, and 9 p.m. The play is produced by Austin Laughlin and directed by Chris Assini. Admission is free for all performances...
...Standard and the producers have guaranteed the performers autonomy and artistic freedom; hence they have been able to line up the Metropolitan Opera's George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo Casals for subsequent concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway; Cyril Ritchard (Romulus) will appear with Hermione Baddeley in something billed as an "intimate...
Edna St. Vincent Millay-vied eagerly for the honor of contributing to his column. These guest appearances, combined with his own fey wit, earned him a tidy salary-at one time $25,000 a year-and a wide following. The Adams circle grew by millions after he joined radio's renowned Information Please quiz program in 1938, along with Clifton Fadiman, John Kieran and Oscar Levant...