Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autumn curtain rises-and they play The melting strains of "Love Will Find...
Thus Punch reviewed Eliot's latest play. The Elder Statesman (TIME, Sept. 8). Cruel April's bard and the elder statesman of Anglo-American letters is 70 this week, and to the surprise of practically everybody, including himself, Thomas Stearns Eliot seems in love with love and life. The poet who was old at 23, when he wrote Prufrock, is getting young in his old age. Last year the erstwhile "aged eagle" talked about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow...
...Practical Cats-my young godchildren call me Uncle Possum-than anything else I've ever written." What would he like to write next? Possibly more poetry, but "it will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different and more difficult conditions...
...town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound. He had just sold his first play, and in the happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much Tom earned, Rhoda could not get over the fear that the theater was a precarious life. Her fetish was security, and when she met Presley Brake, founder of Monolith Security Mutual...
...Harrow has lost all his money backing a dud play. He is aging, unsure of his talent, confused about life's meanings. Rhoda offers to come back, to get him out of his financial jam. But Tom knows when he has reached the point of no return. The novel's last line sounds like a Marquand parody: "In the end, no matter how many were in the car, you always drove alone...