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...made no money. But Manilans took a shine to its brash love of controversy. One article stated the case for Filipinos who contended that they had had to collaborate or else. Another sailed into G.I. Joe, told him to quit criticizing the Filipinos, give them a break...
...adapted from Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Bobby Clark; produced by Michael Todd) was for 276 years a satiric comedy. Last week it became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob who ached to shine in high society. Then Actor Clark cut up in it. The result, here & there, is as hilarious as it is heterodox. But mostly it falls flat...
...tried, but he fell asleep. Prince Vasily fell asleep too. But Prince Ivan snatched one feather from the Firebird's tail as she tore herself from his grasp. "This feather was so marvelously bright that when it was placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...
...When I seek out the sources of my thoughts," he writes in The Coming of Fate, "I find they had their beginning in fragile Chance; were born of little moments that shine for me curiously in the past. Slight the impulse that made me take this turning at the crossroads, trivial and fortuitous the meeting, and light as gossamer the thread that first knit me to my friend.... So I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. Why, today, perhaps, or next week. I may hear...
Mitzi Green, playing a sort of Texas Guinan rele, does well within a limited range. The rest of the cast has little chance to shine. Max Goberman's orchestra is big and competent...