Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of its schedule. NBC's Producers' Showcase brought Broadway's Katharine Cornell to TV for her dramatic debut with her best-known vehicle, Rudolf Besier's 1931 hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street. In telling the love story of bedridden Elizabeth Barrett and Poet Robert Browning, the play seemed to have a full set of strikes against it for a mass audience, since 1) it was about poets and poetry, 2) its problem could have been solved at any time merely by the heroine's walking out on her domineering father...
...beginning, however, the going seems a little rough, mainly because the play is not very funny. Throughout the first half of the comedy, most of the humor is at the expense of the Jew, Shylock, whom the poet conceived as a grasping, vengeful figure intent on exacting his pound of flesh from the Merchant. But director Richard Smithies has wisely chosen not to make Shylock the butt of all the jokes, even though he succeeds only partially in finding funny material elsewhere in the play...
...brilliant shift of its dialectic, the Poet's Theatre has sided with comprehensibility this month, and come up with a rousing, if not always consistent, spoof of early and silent Hollywood. Much of poet John Ashbery's original play is quite funny...
Dickens installed his mistress in a "bower in Ampthill Square." Richard Monckton Milnes (later Lord Houghton), who proposed several times to Florence Nightingale, compiled such an extensive mass of pornography for his Yorkshire home that he called the place Aphrodisiopolis. Queen Victoria's favorite poet and laureate, Tennyson himself, enjoyed rude limericks-those five-line exercises in lubricity that still enjoy a large oral circulation. Algernon Swinburne had a great taste for erotica ("Shall I tell our visitor about the man of Peru?"). Whistler's saucy Finette, who introduced the cancan to England, was clearly not his mother...
...Bearded poet and ex-member of the class of '58, Peter Heliczer leaped from the liner "Roman" last week as it sailed between Gibraltar and Barcelona. "It was merely a poetic action," Heliczer said after ship's officers had hauled him aboard. On arrival in Italy he commented "I'm not at all fed up with life. I'm going to Rome and expect to have a very good time...