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DIED. Louise Weiss, 90, author, playwright, film maker and galvanizing feminist who in recent years, as the oldest member of the European Parliament, pressed her vision of a revivified Continental consciousness; in Paris. Founder and editor of her own influential magazine, L 'Europe Nouvelle, from 1918 to 1934, she left to campaign for female suffrage, once chaining herself with friends across the Rue Royale to block traffic. In 1936 Weiss was offered a Cabinet post if she would desist; she refused. French women finally got the vote...
...writer is more compelling than one who seems modern to later generations. Heinrich von Kleist, the German playwright, story writer and essayist, collected admirers who called him their contemporary for a century and more after his brief lifetime...
...miscarry. The Broken Pitcher centers on a judge who is also a malefactor; in Amphitryon, the great Theban commander rages against an impostor "who wants me . .. out of the fortress of my consciousness." This sense of self as an armed camp is one of many traits that make the playwright seem a contemporary of another great admirer, Bertolt Brecht...
...British Playwright Nichols' twist is that almost before the affair begins, the triangle becomes a pentangle. James and Eleanor have alter egos, played by Frank Langella and E. Katherine Kerr. These are id-like private selves who ironically, amusingly and sometimes heartrendingly blurt out and unmask the hypocrisies, fears, desires and fantasies the public selves are hiding. This is a device very much like the one Eugene O'Neill used in Strange Interlude. It can be a potent mode of psychological revelation, al though on occasion it can be, and is, slightly confusing...
DIED. Theodore Ward, 80, Louisiana-born, Chicago-based playwright whose critically acclaimed major works (Big White Fog, Our Lan') not only depicted racial oppression in America but also sought to create heroic black protagonists; of a heart attack; in Chicago...