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Bovril & Euripides. This strange hero's private life is told with all the rhetorical flimflam of a Victorian romance, but with the shocking -or comic -difference that what should be the heroine is a boy. Except for this novelty, all the period's literary conventions are present. Crabbe...
From Dylan Thomas, privately the spirit of extravagance, there might have been expected at least one big, rich, interesting failure; the Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a...
Helped by MacLeish's dramatic use of Zuss and Nickles, Director Elia Kazan has to a certain degree given utterance the effect of action, though at a certain cost. He endows the second act with a kind of life, but on rhetorical, loud-speakered, high-pressured terms that avoid...
Aside from his intellectual and rhetorical powers, Jimmy's chief talents are for making his wife happy at night and miserable during the day. These facts, with the additional fact that Jimmy is not averse to making similar contributions to the nocturnal happiness of other women, comprise Mr. Osborne's...
Mistakes Will Happen. Tanguy was herded into a sealed cattle car with a group of Jewish children bound for a German concentration camp. For 3½ days, under a broiling August sun. the railroad car remained unopened while the children wept, sickened, and gradually lost control of their natural functions...