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With this statement, playwright Ken Barnard has covered himself. The audience must accept the series of farcical episodes which follow, attempting to make something out of them while the highly proficient actors concentrate on producing a stunning rendition of a not entirely satisfying play. Set in what appears to be an 18th or 19th-century court--or madhouse disguised as a court--the play uses the not-quite-worn-out vehicle of a play within a play to point up mankind's repertoire of vulgarities and bestial acts...
...Magic Show of Dr. Ma-Gico," although lacking in traditional theatrical continuity, works as a vehicle for some remarkable performances. From the actors' if not from the playwright's point of view, it is certainly a success...
Died. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, 80, durable and witty cinema scenarist and playwright; of heart failure; in Manhattan. Behrman's first play, The Second Man (1927), an overnight hit, was an urbane comedy like many of his later works (Rain from Heaven, Wine of Choice). No Time for Comedy (1939), the story of a writer who wants to be serious yet has a gift mainly for entertainment, reflected Behrman's own situation; but in several plays, including his adaptation of Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), he successfully fused comedy with drama. A celebrated raconteur, Behrman...
...Frank Salter, and said that I couldn't go on reading history even with him. I must find something that was better for me. He was totally sympathetic, and said, 'That being the case, you must come to lunch Tuesday.'..." --From an interview with I.A. Richards, critic, poet, philosopher, playwright, educator, and chief promoter of Basic English...
Though best known as a film actor (Topkapi, Spartacus), playwright (Romanoff and Juliet) and radio and TV wit ("NATO? Six nations in search of an enemy!"), Peter Ustinov is also an old hand at opera. Over the past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will...