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Henry V is not so much a play about individuals, to be watched by an audience, as it is a kind of communal experience of revelry, hoopla, and even mystical ecstasy. A production almost becomes a corporate singing of a national poem instead of the national anthem--through which act the characters and the audience all brainwash each other. Three cheers for Harry the All-Britannican...
...that he has changed with the times; the times are out of breath trying to change with him. With such soloists as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Cat Anderson, Ellington's orchestra remains the best big band in the world. The Duke closed his set by reading a charming poem, which he composed himself, spoofing racism...
Scratching Mice. Partch grew up on the Mexican border, where his father, an ex-missionary who thought of himself as an "aggressive atheist," had gone to work for the Immigration Service. By the time he was 22, Harry had composed a scholastically pleasing string quartet, a symphonic poem and a piano concerto, but he set fire to them all a few years later when he was struck by the revelation that the spaces between the keys hold more fascination than the keys themselves. Eventually he arrived at a 43-tone octave and brought the good news to the Irish poet...
...assorted literati to testify. Lillian Maxine Serett, who wrote The Housewife's Handbook under the pen name Key Anthony, told the court, "Women's role in sex is widely misunderstood. Women do have sexual rights." Essayist Dwight Macdonald testified that he found inoffensive a "photographic tone poem" in Eros showing a nude Negro man and a nude white woman in eight pages of assorted full-color embraces. But when it came to Liaison and The Housewife's Handbook, even Macdonald drew the line. They were, he said, "vulgar and of no literary value...
...macadam and roared at the famous faces in the glare. One by one, smiles popping like flashbulbs, they disappeared in the direction of the screen. What did it hold for them? Surely no Shavian conversation piece could conceivably have cost all that money. Surely no noble Shakespearean poem could possibly be recited by Elizabeth Taylor. No, Cleopatra was bound to be one of those colossal Things that periodically come charging out of the acetate jungle and gobble up millions of dollars. It was bound to be a superspectacle. But as such might it not prove as memorable as Gone With...