Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie Byfield, Chicago hotelman and nightclub impresario (the Pump Room, the College Inn), reached 60, took a dim view of the bistro business: "Nightclubs are like gold mines. For every ten bucks you put in, one buck is extracted . . . Old nightclubs and old streetwalkers are the same. The older they...
Regina (written & composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. As music, it is more clever than distinguished; as drama, it is clearly a littler Foxes. But on its own terms-and they are wisely...
It is not the text of The Little Foxes that Regina has altered: the storyline scarcely varies an inch. It is the tone. With its sharp claws and ruthless clawing, its treacherous wiles and wheelchair theatrics, The Little Foxes might have yielded something inordinately operatic. But though his big scenes...
They are first shown as a Boston Brahmin couple giving a family party on their golden wedding day. Though pretty messy for the family, things are golden for the Lunts. Then the play wanders sentimentally back across the years, offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and...
Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To...