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...plays opened on Broadway last week. None had opened for a fortnight nor would for two months. For, the sun having swung south from the Tropic of Cancer, the U. S. Drama swung out across the city limits.* In a hundred remodeled barns, churches and casinos, on college campuses and at amusement parks, several thousand professional, semiprofessional and amateur performers greased up and caught their cues as the summer theatre season got under...
...Prose and Poetry ($2), including a translation of a famed essay by Jean Cocteau on the Painter Chirico, four good poems by Wallace Stevens on the Idea of Man, suave Surrealist stories by Montagu O'Reilly, fantasies by Henry Miller, incorrigible author of the more-than-Rabelaisian Tropic of Cancer...
...tropic gardens drenched...
...stands for horsepower. Chavez tried therein to contrast the luxurious, banana-laden tropics with the hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where...
fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...