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...France, eventually became president of the Laotian Royal Council. Brother Nhouy, whom Laotians call "the quintessence of culture," an honors graduate from the Sorbonne, was the more worldly and efficient one. While gentle Kou kept to his high-collared tunics and the quiet ways of an old-school nobleman, Nhouy cultivated a taste for wine, women and gambling, and turned out some of the country's most highly polished poetry...
...story-involving an exiled Hungarian nobleman returning to claim his father's estate, a beautiful gypsy maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...
...were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance Man George Bright, a recovered TB victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel's Portrait of Count Basie, John Hultberg's From a Car and Richard Diebenkorn's Woman by a Window...
...Harvard University associate professor is writing plays. "The Agamemnon" was printed in 1952 in "Botteghe Oscure," a magazine run by an Italian nobleman who lives on a "street of dark shops." Then the play was published in book form, and it will be produced in New York in the fall...
...this, of course, takes us far from the lecherous nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual trickery, and a handy handle to pick the whole thing up by.) It was not the sexual aspect of Don Juan that interested Shaw primarily. (Indeed, it was not the sexual aspect of anything, even of sex, that interested Shaw primarily, in spite of occasional protestations to the contrary.) "Philosophically," says...