Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IIIicit Interlude sports ballet and bodies in a hold-over run at the Brattle; Boston censors unaccountably kept shears sheathed from Passionate Summer, at Loew's Center, the French-Italian tale of "A big stud-horse of a man" who runs up against three marish women and goats on an island...
Time Remembered, with big names Helen Hayes, Susan Strasberg, and Richard Burton has just opened at the Colonial. "An aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale," Anouilh's play is Helen Hayes' platinum setting...
...wrenches the Prince out of his deep freeze. Finally, after the happy Duchess and her wonderfully inept friend Lord Hector shoot a symbol down from the wings--a bedraggled phoenix, representing the finally defeated spirit of the ballerina--the play ends. It is an aristocratic fable, an intellectual fairy tale...
...title page warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley...
...Forgotten Man. It is a plain tale with an ancient theme. A young schoolmaster, Dmitri Lopatkin. invents a machine for making drainpipes. He sends the drawing of his new centrifugal pipe-casting machine to the responsible bureau, receives friendly encouragement and has his project submitted to "expert" opinion. Promptly things start going wrong. Lopatkin, who has given up schoolteaching and is now wholly dedicated to the cause of drainpipery, falls victim to a mysterious bureaucratic runaround. Months and years pass in a silence punctuated only by official notifications: "It is not considered possible . . ." "Your complaint has been forwarded to . . ." Occasionally...