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...Forster's A Passage to India has come to be recognized as one of the finest novels of the century. Given the possibilities in the book, it was perhaps inevitable that some one would write a play based upon it, and some one has, with astonishing results . Santha Rama Rau's stage adaptation of A Passage to India is-not to put too fine a point on matters-superb. She has taken only the hard, tight plot of the book and fashioned of it a play crackling with enormous, concentrated tension, an exciting drama which yet retains much...
Died. Heinrich Rau, 61, a charter member of the German Communist Party who directed the drive to nationalize the East German economy and was rewarded with the title of Deputy Premier; of a heart attack; in East Berlin...
...Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists named George J. Bornstein '63, of Lowell House and St. Louis, Mo., president; Stephen S. Tobias '64, of Holworthy Hall and New York City, vice-president; Nathan N. Swett '63, of Lowell House and New Haven, Conn., secretary; and Dan S. Rau '63, of Adams House and New York City, treasurer...
Although Author Rau had to leave out much of the novel, she managed to extract the center while not damaging its heart. The play begins with an amplification of the Chandrapore tea party (Chapter 7 of the book), pitching together the bearers of Eastern and Western culture. The second act ably gets across the difficult scene in the Marabar Caves, where a young English miss neurotically imagines that she has been raped by Dr. Aziz, the thin-skinned Moslem. The action moves on to the British club and the shocked reaction of the other colonials, ends with the novel...
...Oxford premiere last week, one of the most dramatic moments occurred after the curtain fell. Ancient (81), legendary Edward Morgan Forster made his way to the bright side of the footlights. Speaking from the stage, he praised Santha Rama Rau's treatment ("excellent and sensitive"), thanked the 18-member cast "not only for being so good but for being so many. Most modern plays have only a man and two women or a woman and two men. I tried to depict the diversity of human types...