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Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the...
¶ THE COCKTAIL PARTY (Decca; $9.98) and MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Angel; $9.98). Eliot's two best plays: the first in a prancing recitation by the original New York cast (Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel); the second read with less than majesty but more than dignity...
¶ JAMES JOYCE SOCIETY MEETING (Folkways; $11.90). Set in the midst of a windy "Meeting of the Joyce Society" is a perfect Eden of recitation: James Joyce reads the closing pages of Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake. Though the recording was made long before the days of hifi. Joyce...
McCord's history, issued in honor of the College's seventy-fifth anniversary, is consistently interesting and amusing. By a liberal use of quotations, anecdotes and his own light verse, McCord avoids the simple recitation of names and dates which overburdens many official college histories.
Plotted and photographed in a bare, newsreelistie-styler-Suddenly tells how Sinatra and two other toughs, in the pay of a foreign power, try to kill the President (unnamed) when he detrains in a small town called Suddenly (because it makes a good title for the film). Sinatra demonstrates that...