Word: one-act
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...serving up westerns, whodunits and the kind of boy-meets-girl story that can be illustrated by a ripe cheesecake jacket. Occasionally, however, Avon offers a change of diet, and its latest, Stories in the Modern Manner, is an adventure in highbrow smorgasbord: 14 short stories and a one-act play from the literary bimonthly, Partisan Review. The editors never explain what the tag "modern manner" means, but most of these stories do have one thing in common: they are about the end of something-love, life, adolescence or illusion...
...Deadline," a one-act play by Richard B. Kline '53, will be produced by the Harvard Dramatic Club as its final production of the season at 2:30 this afternoon in Agassiz Theatre...
...called An Fear a Phōs Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness...
...Thacher School at Ojai, Calif.-he was the delight and despair of his teachers. A shy, skinny boy in knee pants, he was wrapped in a cloud of make believe; his greatest pleasure was to dress his sisters up in cheesecloth and get them to act one of his own one-act plays...
...Rome's entire past into one package and labeled it "1920." This, says he, was something he learned at the American Academy: "If you have ever wielded an archaeologist's pickax, you are never the same again. You see Times Square as if it were an archaeological specimen 2,000 years from now." In the '20s, he seemed to be concerned with everything but America. In 1925-26 he took a year's leave from Lawrenceville to study for an M.A. at Princeton in French literature. In a one-act play by Merimee, he found...