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Entrants should submit manuscripts of 1,000 words by Monday at noon, and also include a brief biographical sketch...
Entrants should submit manuscripts of 1,000 words by Monday, May 17, at noon, and also include a brief biographical sketch...
...traditional curtain-raiser began the evening's activities. It is really just a short sketch expanded into a half-hour with music, a kind of parody of coincidence-filled drama, and a wonderful curtain line. Sir Arthur Sullivan was the composer, but the libretto was written by two gentlemen named Morton and Burnand. A few years later Sullivan entered into a much more successful partnership...
...very freshly conceived. And though Co-Star Jack Haley (Higher and Higher) is generally pleasant and useful, in the end it's up to Miss Lillie; and wondrous though she can be, she's not quite up to the job. Given a genuinely funny sketch-such as Moss Hart's about a superstitious maid who unnerves an actress on opening night and Bea is colossal. Given a reasonable chance to shine-as in two or three other numbers-and she shines. But forced, as she often is, to batter her way through a sketch, even Bea gets...
...tweed jacket and tie when he is painting. Never using a palette, he squeezes the colors on to plain white kitchen dishes and uses them just as they come out of the tube, except for the addition of a little turpentine. Each picture starts with a fairly detailed charcoal sketch; he gradually simplifies it as he paints. This process of simplification, he says, is the very symbol of his life: "A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements...