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Creativity and Catapults. Such human engineering, of course, would stunt the passionate creativity that slow risers now use to bedevil themselves out of bed. One Los Angeles ad man takes a deep draught of vodka, which, he says, tricks him into thinking it's still last night and he's awake and having a good time. The wife of one comedian once baked him out of bed by turning up the dial on his electric blanket. Humorist Robert Benchley's secretary used to wake him up with such snappy lines as "The men have come to flood...
SOME PEOPLE over at Quincy House have pulled a neat stunt this week. They have produced two one-act plays, but somehow ended up with about five-sixths of one one-acter. I guess it shows a certain amount of good old American ingenuity on their part, but it also makes for an unfortunately disturbing evening of theatre...
...Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter of a century was to stunt his growth as a performer while it made him a rich man. In recovering from the aftereffects of Eugene's birth, his mother, who had hoped for a daughter, became addicted to morphine-a tragic accident for which his older brother Jamie held Eugene half responsible...
Nonviolent Ideals. Was his gesture merely a publicity stunt for the novel? Or was Arias, for twelve years a translator for UNESCO, simply a trifle loco? Jean-Marie Domenach, a French Catholic intellectual, calls Arias a "deeply convinced, well-balanced man." Arias himself, who is devoted to the nonviolent ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, feels that "if I ask other people to be active in a nonviolent campaign in Spain, no one will do anything. That's why I must set an example." His wife says: "He simply has the courage of his convictions...
...something of a stunt when British TV Director Philip Saville went to Denmark's Elsinore Castle to make a television Hamlet, starring Christopher Plummer. Going to Greece to film Oedipus the King in an ancient amphitheater is also a gimmick, but it has paid off better. The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed. The local peasant faces among the extras give an authenticity to the hoi polloi that makeup men could never have managed...