Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original Parisian sets of the late Christian Berard are used for this production and are entirely in sympathy with the play as are his bizarre costumes. The American adaptation by Maurice Valency appears to be an excellent job. A word of special thanks must go to Alfred De Liagre, Jr., not only for his direction, but for his courage and foresight in putting on such an obviously 'uncommercial' drama. Mr. De Liagre chose for his garden the almond tree rather than the oil well--and happily has been granted both...
...City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...