Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real smasher," cooed unabashed Juror Friend on the front pages of the London press. "I was tremendously thrilled with our verdict. I was bubbling over with it." Then she called Liberace's room at the Savoy. But the pianist had left to play before a packed house at the Chiswick Empire. When a woman there shouted: "Let's have one for Mr. Connor!", Liberace turned to the keyboard and rippled out Jealousy...
...thing I can assure you," said Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene two years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy...
...Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with the bookseller. At play's end, Mary and Clive prepare for a cold assignation in shabby rooms, already fearing that she will inevitably and finally escape to .the warming boredom of her husband. The question: Are the lovers more guilty than the complacent cuckold? Wittily, wisely, Greene gives no clear answer...
Author Greene considers The Complaisant Lover his best play, and the London critics-who were not notably stirred by his earlier stage tries-agreed enthusiastically. Amid the general applause, a minority of Greene fans hoped that he would not give up religious themes for good; quite a few playwrights have successfully written about manners and immorals, but few nowadays even attempt to deal with miracles...
Once upon a time (i.e., four years ago) professionally sentimental, consistently profitmaking Hollywoodsman Walt Disney built the zingiest, zowiest toy his fertile mind could imagine-and then invited others to come play with it. So far, some 16 million have taken up the offer. Last week 24,000, including Vice President Nixon and his family, were on hand to help Walt celebrate the fourth anniversary of the toy. Crooned M.C. Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter: "Disneyland -its only purpose . . . the pursuit of happiness...