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Sometimes among the bills and accounts he finds a literary prize. Not long ago while his assistant, Mlle. Nicole Parichon, was cleaning the plaster off a mummy, she spotted a piece of papyrus that looked unusual. Other pieces matched it, and eventually a dozen pieces fitted together. They turned out to be part of a long, rolled-up scroll that contained 400 lines of a hitherto unknown play of Menander, a Greek playwright who died in 290 B.C. It is one of the oldest Greek manuscripts known, but the writing is almost as clear as fresh print...
...only were all of the players in Others good; most of them were excellent. Weisman, Mlle. Lathrop, Joan Oppenheim, and Puorro deserve the highest praise...
...mime consists of four interrelated scenes preceded by "phases," as Mlle. Lathrop describes them. Each phase is an interlude in which Michael Puorro, who is a baby as the mime opens, grows older. Puorro is especially convincing as he discovers his fingers and hands and learns to walk. His symbolic tug-of-war to hold onto life--pulling on an imaginary rope with Norris Eisenberg on the other end--is graceful and agonizing...
...Part II Michele Morgan is valiant and pure as a woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...Igor Markevitch in the Swiss As ever, she was thin, almost in Copland's term, "nun-like." Markevitch children presented her $3,000 diamond purchased by boulangerie, and the guests broke a chorus composed for the by former student Francis Poulence was a birthday party such as few enjoy; Mlle. Boulanger had the congratulations of the musical world...