Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Producer Julian Blaustein has translated his tale from World War I to World War II, but too often he retains a dated atmosphere of glamour-by-gaslight. Hero Ford, a playboy from Argentina, falls pampassionately in love with Heroine Thulin, a Parisienne married to a patriotic editor. When the editor joins the Resistance, the hero realizes his duty and secretly does the same. Unaware of his decision, the heroine decides that he is merely a lightweight, and goes back to her husband. At the fade, while the violins soar among the bomb bursts, the poor misunderstood playboy dies heroically...
...underground labor force filled with homemade batter and distributed nationwide. Top executives at the plant who, complained the paper, "considered the factory their patrimony," were paid from $220 to $1,660 a month each, while Kotlyar's go-between got all travel expenses plus 55? a tube. No playboy, Kotlyar plowed his profits into jewelry and state bonds, and. according to the press, "dreamed of accumulating more valuables." He will face a firing squad...
...currently in print about him and his work, with more sure to come. The two latest are examples of sibling nonrivalry: Older Sister Marcelline's clutch of childhood memories recently serialized in the monthly Atlantic, and this collection of Kid Brother Leicester's reminiscences serialized in Playboy...
...productions at the Loeb have suffered from inadequate direction. Not only have directors failed in their obligation to interpret their plays, but they have been unable to block exits from the huge Loeb stage without having their actors crash into each other. Conversely, credit for the success of The Playboy must go largely to its director, George Hamlin. The performance was clean and economical; no movement is made on the stage without purpose. Ramzi Mostafa's set had the same virtues: handsomeness grace, and economy...
Synge wrote a "Curse, to a sister of an enemy of the Author's who disapproved of The Playboy...