Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chekov play, however, director Michael Harwood must take a good deal of the responsibility for a comparative failure. In trying to show the demented quality of the goings-on in a Russian bank near the turn of the century, Harwood subjects his actors to a break-neck pace that is much more frantic than funny. Martin Mintz, as a clerk, and John Fenn, as the bank manager, do get some laughs, but they constantly give the impression of trying too hard, with too little material. Yet the defects of the curtain-raiser matter very little, since the over-all quality...
...better described as a device than as a machine. It consists of a small wooden box with several small windows in the top, and a lever in front. Inside, there is maze of pulleys, levers, and chains and an aluminum disk about the size of a phonograph turn-table. It's really very simple, however...
World War II, however, slowed down Barnum and Bailey as well as the Classics Club, and the ancients went back to their graves until old soldiers, in their turn, began to fade away...
...mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes on the fantastic events in which, trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish's eye, which she tried to swallow...
...raised by British Novelist Herbert Ernest Bates is: How long can a writer go on being promising without paying off? In Bates's case, the answer seems to be indefinitely. Now 50, he had more fine short stories to his credit in his thirties than most good writers turn out in a lifetime. But short stories do not pay well, and Bates, like any sensible fictioneer, wants to be paid as well as read. So novels it was, and promising though several of them were, his admirers usually laid them down at the end quite sure that things would...