Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guinness' current vehicle, now at the Saxon Theatre, is a film version of Daphne DuMaurier's novel The Scapegoat. This affords the star another opportunity to undertake more than one role. But whereas he portrayed an octet of completely different characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets, his task here is in some ways much more difficult: Guinness, without benefit of contrasting makeup or costume, has to portray two men visually identical and sometimes conversing with each other--a British college French teacher on vacation in France, and a French count. The latter tricks the former into taking his place...
Based on a novel by Russian Symbolist Poet Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), the opera unfolds the story of a demon-haunted doxy named Renata, who grows up in 16th century Germany in the company of an angel, but loses her impulse to sainthood when she decides that she wants to be his mate. The angel disappears in an angry burst of flame, and Renata keeps looking for him until she at last runs afoul of the Inquisition and is sentenced to death at the stake. Part of the fascination of this murky Gothic tale is that most of it exists...
...courses are most popular this year. The following courses have enrollments of over 100: Fine Arts S-19e, Five Epochs of Art History: Selected Works of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern Art; History S-134b, Intellectual History of Europe Since 1815; English S-164, Aspects of the Impressionistic Novel; Government S-185, The United States in World Politics; Chem S-20, Organic Chemistry; History S-155c, Russian Thought from Ivan the Terrible to Pasternak; Psychology...
...lack of writers and actors in the tradition of high comedy, he pointed out, is another failing of American theatre today; and he condemned as mere "journalism" the popular practice of the dramatized novel...
What Is Chastity? Originally planned as part of Comfort Me with Apples (TIME, April 30, 1953). the new book almost seems like a double take of the earlier novel. The hero is again Chick Swallow, the poor man's Freud, who writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His chief anxiety is still his sophomoric brother-in-law Nickie Sherman, a fool in bon motley. In Comfort, Nickie salvaged his ego by catching a crook; in Tents, Nickie becomes a crook, at odd hours, and ends up chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found...