Word: orton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CRIMES OF PASSION. The late British playwright Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot) was much possessed by death, which he treats in these two one-acters with a grisly sense of humor. He died before he had mastered his craft, but rarely in recent years has the theater lost such an original imagination...
...STEVE ORTON Altadena, Calif...
...most established of these is the London route. Such plays as Hadrian the Seventh, Man in the Glass Booth, and The Homecoming were London successes brought to New York by American producers. This is not foolproof, since London hits can still be New York flops (such as Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane...
...Orton, who has been the president of Lesley since 1960, was graduated from the University of Utah in 1942. He received an M.A. from Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. degree in Education from Harvard in 1948. He was a visiting professor of Education at Harvard from...
...Orton was previously married to the former Iva Pixton on Oct. 10, 1942. The marriage ended in divorce...