Word: playes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensational gimmick," says Playwright Crowley. "The big revelation in the third act was that the guy was homosexual, and then he had to go offstage and blow his brains out. It was associated with sin, and there had to be retribution." These days a movie or play can end, as Staircase does, with a homosexual couple still together or, as Boys in the Band winds up, with two squabbling male lovers trying desperately to save their relationship. Beyond that, the homosexual is a special kind of antihero; his emergence on center stage reflects the same sympathy for outsiders that...
...latest Associated Press New England football poll ranks Dartmouth and Yale, who play each other Saturday in New Haven, as the top two teams in the area. Harvard which has lost two games in a row for the first time since 1962, dropped to a distant sixth place...
Koerner claims he really would like to play football or hockey except that "I'm too small and uncoordinated." But, he admits, "I'm really not a jock. It's just that some people are into music, some are drug dealers-I'm a runner...
...Overruled is Slaw as his most irrelevant. The mood of the play, and even bits of its plot, is very close to Wilde's Importance of Being, Earnest. Two married couples have gone on trips around the world, but each pair has split itself up and started from opposite directions. The husband from each pair has met and tried to seduce the wife of the other, and they have all wound up in the same hotel in England at the end of their trips. That sounds implausible, but then farce is built on implausibility...
...Madame's late Lamented Mother is about a squabbling couple who believe mistakenly that the wife's mother has died. The husband, played by Lloyd Schwartz, is hilarious as he rips off a string of consoling euphemisms and "There There's" about poor dear sweet mama "passing on ." The play stiffened a little bit from being slapstick and almost too fast to handle intelligently-but everybody laughed a lot so who cares...