Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ferenc Molnar's reaction, at 70, to the successful Broadway revival of his 21-year-old The Play's the Thing: "I'm grateful and fatherly and all that, but something of me has vanished with the times . . . Who cares about comedies and dramas when all day long . . . you hear and read about nothing but a sorely troubled world...
Unenforced Obligations. Miltonis really three in one: a coed elementary school, a girls' school, a boys' prep school. Upper classes are strictly separated by sex, but Milton boys & girls share a library and observatory, play an annual baseball game together. The combined enrollment...
...horse named George Smith won the Derby ?Eddie Arcaro has been making his way against odds, which have shortened considerably through the years. First, it was his size. At Southgate, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, the other kids told him that he was too small to play baseball. At ten, as a caddy at the Highland Country Club, he took such a shine to the game that his father, Patsy Arcaro, the comfortably fixed proprietor of a china store, thought he had a golfer in the family. One of Eddie's best clients was Tom McCaffery...
...Alchemist (by Ben Jonson; produced by the New York City Theatre Company) is an almost ostentatiously neglected comic masterpiece. It could, without doubt, be shorter. But 300 years after it was written and long after alchemy† went out of fashion, the play still teems with hard, bawdy, farcical fun; still gives that well-mated couple, greed and gullibility, a handsome thrashing; still rushes ahead with a plot that the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge adjudged "one of the three most perfect" in literature...
Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...