Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-seven years ago Oscar Wilde, in his play Lady Winder mere's Fan, said: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst, the last is areal tragedy." Behind several Shavian faces is the laughing ghost of Oscar Wilde...
...question was how West Germany should meet British devaluation; what mattered was the damage done in the search for an answer. Here is a play-byplay account of what happened...
...drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
Right wing Ben Goldstein, who played last week despite his leg injury, seemed fully fit at practice yesterday. But inside left Charlie Weiss remains a doubtful starter. If Weiss can't play, Ted Wolf, who scored one of last week's four goals, will take as place...
Robert O'Hearn's efficient and fascinating two-level stage tops the Company's previous triumphs in design, and it is hard to subordinate Richard Baldridge's beautiful staging to the play itself...