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...winter of 1920 Wolfe wrote his first play at Harvard, a one-act drama called The Mountains, which was produced for a special workshop audience the following fall. The Mountains was a raw, unpolished production, little resembling the glib drawing-room fare produced by other members of the workshop. It was a story of the Carolina mountain people, dirty and sordid, yet filled with the mystical and romantic eulogization of the "land" which became a trademark of Wolfe's later work. Criticism of the play was highly unfavorable, and Wolfe became despondent: "I will never forget the almost inconceivable anguish...
...opera--but a one-act opera. Fellini has made his movie with careful attention to every detail except the patience of his audience. But his sombre exhaustiveness gives La Strada an essential truthfulness in spite of the melodramatic violence. The stark, stony backgrounds, for instance, of which we see so much: no carpenter could have put them up, no paper-mache could duplicate them. They are real...
Jean-Paul Sartre's one-act play No Exit will be the next production of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, next week on Aug. 14, 15, and 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Union...
...program, the Kraft Co. last month hired Talent Associates' David Susskind to put on a series of works by topnotch authors (among them: Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), gave the new executive producer full rein. Susskind's first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted...
...least-thoughtful uncertainty. Reminisced Critic John Mason Brown ('23): "I came as thousands of others have, from the semidarkness of the subway into the blinding sunshine of Cambridge and Harvard and the Yard. I wanted to do something in connection with the theater. At Harvard they produced this one-act play of mine, and the minute I heard the first two lines spoken, I knew that Shakespeare and O'Neill were safe.'' Playwright Howard Lindsay spoke a pertinent line of Philosopher William James's (M.D., 1869): "The day when Harvard shall stamp a single hard...