Word: spoleto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BESIDES four pages in color on the art festival at Spoleto, this issue features four salt-sprayed pages of pictures of the America's Cup challengers. The reporting assignment fell to Lansing Lamont, 32, of our Washington bureau (whose most recent sailing cup dates from the North Haven, Me., midget dinghy series of 1940). Covering Congress and Cape Canaveral and nuclear testing, Lamont is used to avalanches of garrulity, as well as fits of secrecy. But rarely has he had such trouble getting a story as in the waters off Newport. The cup racers and selection committee members...
Cissy, who may become one of the theater's great all-time bitches, is the heroine of Tennessee Williams' newest play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, which opened last week at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Feeling the approach of death, Cissy, played by Britain's Hermione Baddeley, is hurriedly assembling her coarse, maudlin, bawdy memoirs, and confiding them to a tape recorder. She yearns for a young and therapeutic companion. "There is nothing more stimulating than a lover to every nerve and gland and cell in the body...
...opening night, Tennessee Williams sat in a box above the Spoleto stage, sipping scotch, now and again crying out gleefully, relishing the repugnance of his new creations. Lest anyone misunderstand them, he contributed a program note: "If the play achieves even partially its artistic intention, you will find it possible to pity this female clown even while her absurd pretentions and her panicky last effort to hide from her final destruction make you laugh...
...apiece); the Budapest String Quartet's Mischa Schneider has used one of her cellos. Says one satisfied Hutchins customer, David Mankovitz, who played with the Kroll Quartet: "Her viola creates a sensation wherever I play it. People want to know how to get that tone quality. At the Spoleto Festival, they wouldn't believe it." Mrs. Hutchins' new instruments, some of which have already been played, are even more unbelievable: they run a wide gamut of tones-from an octave higher than the violin to the lowest tones of the present bass viol-and they...
...every two years. But before that, he marinates impressions, characters, experiences. Iguana emerged from a 1940 trip to Acapulco. By 1946, it was a short story. By 1959, it was a one-act play, produced at a theater festival in Spoleto, Italy. Four separate versions followed, and to compare them is to watch sand turning into Baccarat crystal. Says Williams: "It takes five or six years to use something out of life. It's lurking in the unconscious- it finds its meaning there." Essentially, Williams has been chosen by his subjects...