Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gifted of our young men of letters is Gore Vidal. Having attained high esteem through his novels, TV dramas, movie scripts, short stories and literary criticisms, he has now successfully taken the legitimate stage into his domain with his comedy Visit to a Small Planet, which recently finished a Broadway run of almost 400 performances...
...regimes. At the end of the book, one of the three women who loved Zhivago bids him farewell: "The riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, the enchantment of unadorned beauty-yes, yes. these things were ours. [But] things like the reshaping of the planet-these things, no thank you, they...
Lost Innocence. Recollections of Leavitt & Peirce not only are effusive ("At least one tiny island on a fluxing planet has remained the way one likes to remember it"), but like smoke, they drift far from the source. Novelist Walter D. Edmonds ('26) begins with the admission that he broke a filial promise not to smoke until he was 21 when "some Jesuitical character pointed out to me that I was already in my twenty-first year," rambles on to recall that the resulting fumes possessed a curious musk. "Some mornings I awoke to find as many as ten cats...
...successfully taken the legitimate stage into his domain with his comedy Visit to a Small Planet, which recently finished a run of almost 400 performances on Broadway. Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of its dialogue. Vidal avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and bespeak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
Closer to the Square, however, is the Boston Summer Theatre, at New England Mutual Hall. Opening July 7 with Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet, the Summer Theatre will also present James Mason in Mid-Summer (July 14-19); Basil Rathbone and Geraldine Page in Separate Tables (July 21-26); Tonight at 8:30, with Faye Emerson (July 28-Aug. 2); Hal March in A Hole in the Head (Aug. 4-9); Dulcy, with Dody Goodman (Aug. 11-16); and Melvyn Douglas in Strange Partners, a new play by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke...