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Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, is a theatrical event of fascinating and ironic magnitude. Geraldine Page acts with dazzling prismatic splendor, but the play, a 4½-hour marathon, is a dated Lost Generation relic, infused at odd moments with O'Neill's personal anguish...
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, is a theatrical event of fascinating and ironic magnitude. Geraldine Page acts with dazzling prismatic splendor, but the play, a 4½-hour marathon, is a dated Lost Generation relic, infused at odd moments with O'Neill's personal anguish...
...Czar's torment is terrible-but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last...
...Functional Parish." Slum priests freely adapt the worship of the church to fit the needs of their parishes. Boston's Father Sotolongo offers his Latin-American congregation plenty of liturgical splendor, with vestments, incense and sung Masses. Father Cromey in San Francisco holds evangelical preaching-and-singing services in housing projects and on street corners. Pragmatists rather than radicals, these priests are searching for new concepts of what the church should be. The Rev. James Jones, 36, of Chicago, for example, believes that Protestantism must create a new kind of "functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father...
Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...