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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. As music, it is more clever than distinguished; as drama, it is clearly a littler Foxes. But on its own terms-and they are wisely very much its own-it is an exhilarating and enjoyable show...
...inch. It is the tone. With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...
...designer. "But during the war," says Cooper, "my interest in posters faded. I found my hands were functioning without any volition. The first results were doodles, then automatic writing. I thought 'If my pen is doing this, why not the brushes?' One day my hand shot out. Much to my astonishment it picked up a brush and drew on a board...
...exhibition in a London gallery last week, inspired a certain amount of automatic writing on the part of British critics. "It may perhaps be taken as a guarantee of ... authenticity," the London Times opined, ". . . that his pictures are extraordinarily minute and precise in execution; they resemble nothing so much as patches of an old wall on which successive layers of wallpaper have mouldered away...
Maybe Not. Despite all the impressive tests, some doctors were still dubious. The neohetramine tests were perhaps too perfect: most men & women do not get as much rest and will not dose themselves as carefully and regularly as the selected patients. Some doctors pointed to the danger of overdosing; e.g., a man who tries to cure a cold double-quick by doubling the recommended dose may get drowsy and fall asleep while driving...