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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shrubs and the other natural flora of the courtyard will be integrated into the action, with one character making his entrance by sliding down a tree. A raised platform which runs along two sides of the courtyard will provide an acting surface for more orthodox scenes...
York and Newport luxury. A gangling, tree-tall adolescent with a huge head topped by unruly red hair, Alec inevitably got the nickname "Pin," learned to play tennis well enough to reach the quarterfinals of the Newport Invitational when he was 16. He prepared for the match (against Wilmer Allison) by drinking till dawn, then amazed himself by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. At this point his hangover caught up with him. Says Cushing: "I had a total blackout. When I tried to throw the ball up for service, I almost went flat on my face...
Miss McKenna will appear in at least one other play at the Center besides Macbeth. At a press conference following the tree-planting she said that she hoped the season would open with a comedy, adding that As You Like It and Aristophanes' Lysistrata have received consideration...
...into a long skid. "I thought: 'Good old Mike. He'll soon flick out of that one.' " But this time, Mike Hawthorn's practiced skill was not enough. The Jaguar whipped into the opposite lane, clipped an oncoming truck, rolled over twice, bounced off a tree, ended, a battered pile of junk, in a roadside hedge. It took firemen an hour to extricate Mike's body...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Seven short stories about the maimed, the infantile, the impotent, who fall like "twisted apples" from the tree of life...