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Simply Drifting. Ritchard might well have been describing Ritchard. As a highly flexible Superman of the arts, big (6 ft. 2 in., 194 Ibs.), urbane Cyril Ritchard is also the fey earth visitor (and director) of Broadway's hit play A Visit to a Small Planet, a sort of personal gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick...
17th Century Progress. A brilliantly organized drifter, Ritchard is up at the uncommonly early (for actors) hour of 8 a.m., makes jottings in his "unemotional" diary, breakfasts alone in his elegant West Side apartment, which was decorated for him by Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II as a sort of tribute to the memory of his late wife. Actress Madge Elliott...
Jacopo lived simply in Bassano. He cultivated herbs, played the flute, trained all four of his sons to be painters. Since they all used the name Bassano, as well as Jacopo's father, a son-in-law, a grandson and great-grandson, it took a few centuries to sort out Jacopo's work from the rest of the family's. When Jacopo died in 1592, he had only one regret. "I am sorry to die," he murmured, "because death prevents me from learning my craft all over again...
...film preaches with the earnestness of a morality play, but its melodramatic heights seldom attain those of Little Orphan Annie. Wallowing Methodically in his Slough of Despond, Sal Mineo-pouting, simpering, and rolling his eyeballs on the rocky road to manhood-is singularly unconvincing as a meek and mild sort of Michelangelo angel who is all set to inherit the earth...
François Mauriac, France's most famed living Catholic novelist, can say more in 150 pages than can most writers in twice that number. Mauriac seems to hold that the sins of a Robert Lagave are venial because he is the sort of mindless pagan who could scarcely recognize God if he met Him in a blaze of light on the road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps...