Word: poet-playwright
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...create new stars. While TIME'S regular THEATER and CINEMA sections will continue to review new plays and movies, SHOW BUSINESS will report the news of big and little theaters, of slick Broadway productions and progressive university workshops, will range from the facts of financial life to a poet-playwright's latest experiment, from Tin Pan Alley's latest ditty to a nightclub comedian's newest routine. For the new section's first effort, see this week's cover story on TV Showman Jack Paar (LateNight Affair) plus news on a dance group...
...annual bullfight-for-fun fiesta in the southern French town of Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
Though not mentioning any villains by name, Eire's fierce old (75) poet-playwright Lord Dunsany reared up before a group of London authors and ground modern poets under his hobnailed heel: "They are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously, but usually they just 'klunk.' " Then he took aim at modern verse containing sexy lines: "If this is poetry, then there is plenty of it on the walls of the public lavatories of England which is quite as good...
...Edinburgh Festival, a new play by Poet-Playwright T. S. Eliot opened to advance notices that it would be crammed with as many esoteric meanings as The Cocktail Party, his 1950 hit. The Confidential Clerk seemed to say that a man is happiest if he follows in his father's footsteps instead of striking out on a new way of life. Reporters closed in on the author to find out what the play really meant. Said Eliot: "The critics have found different meanings, and the critics are never wrong. As far as I am concerned, it means what...
...rainy day in Manhattan, Lord Dunsany, 74-year-old Irish poet-playwright, believer in fairies and master of the fantastic, arrived on the Queen Mary for his first U.S. visit in 30 years. Before he flew off to spend the rest of his vacation in California, a New York Times reporter panned a few verbal nuggets. Samples...