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...Dean Acheson pointed out at dinner one night, the visitor's gifts only began with statecraft. Some fifty years ago, said Acheson, the muses had fought to control González' future. In the end, only four remained in the running. One touched his tongue and made him an orator, another touched his head and made him a statesman, a third touched his fingers and made him a musician. "And," said Acheson, "the fourth muse, Terpsichore, touched his feet-and I don't have to tell you what happened." González roared with laughter. After dinner...
Soon the Dramatic Muse will be able to leave New York and pitch her tent by the rural wayside for the summer, content in the knowledge that she's got at least one good revue to her credit this season. The Hartmans, Grace and Paul, are back again in a new intimate revue, and it's one that's a pleasure to watch all the way. "Tickets, Please!" has a good many features to commend it, and a full list of the credits would read very much like The Playbill...
...them traces an incestuous path down the lineage of Rome's haughty Caesars, another gets a hold on the book of Exodus, turns it upside down, shakes its patriarchal Mosaic to fragments, and finally puts it all together again in the image of Graves's inseparable muse, the so-called "White Goddess...
...expect that, with the maestro so well set and devil-may-care, his personal Notebook would be as breezy as, say, the Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (in which the old fox hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains...
...last line of the above paragraph might seem to indicate that Mr. Behrman has some thesis or other hiding behind the skirts of his winking Muse, but such is not the case. The plot of "I Know My Love" offers about as much opportunity for character-study as an hour with the old family album. What dimension the Chanler family has is due mainly to the embellishments given it by the actors...