Word: romulus
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...then chucked it all to write for television. This dramatic renunciation-Rimbaud would never have gone into gunrunning if there had been television to write for-had its purgative effect, and Vidal soon became the author of three successful Broadway farces (Visit to a Small Planet, The Best Man, Romulus...
...tightly bunched 26-horse field pounded into Tattenham Corner, Long-shot (33-1) Romulus clipped the heels of the French-owned colt Crossen. Off flew French Jockey Maurice Larraun, down went Romulus-and in seconds the track was covered with seven prostrate jockeys and riderless horses. One horse broke a leg, six jockeys were injured-four seriously-and the casualties included the 9-2 favorite, Hethersett. The eventual winner: Larkspur, a 22-1 choice owned by the U.S.'s Raymond Guest...
...concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway; Cyril Ritchard (Romulus) will appear with Hermione Baddeley in something billed as an "intimate revue of songs and sketches...
...theater piece Romulus owes a calculable debt to Cyril Ritchard, who makes of the emperor a mock-serious dandy, and whose drolly mannered and expertly timed delivery accounts for most of the evening's laughs. Playwright Vidal's contribution to the Duerrenmatt script seems to consist of topical gags scavenged from the headlines without any visible link to the historic past. Romulus asks finally to be judged as a play of ideas when it only toys with ideas. Overlooking the fact that it takes two to make dialogue but only one to make war, Romulus clings...
Trying desperately to be Shavian, Romulus in the end rewards the playgoer with a wispy heap of intellectual shavings...