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Neither Got Tired. Once established as a light versifier, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, worked in Hollywood and collaborated with S.J. Perelman on the 1943 Broadway hit One Touch of Venus. The verse came out by the volume. He once remarked: "I often wonder whether I will get tired of writing them before the public gets tired of reading them, or whether it will happen the other way." He never tired of writing, and his public never tired of reading...
Among the faces and talents freshly added to Metamorphoses, Avery Shreiber is a comic treasure. Rather resembling a stocky, mustachioed Sicilian just off the grape treadmill, he is a muscle-brained Vulcan. Enraged to find his bride Venus cuckolding him with Mars, he exposes the pair in a hilariously crafty bungle. He is equally diverting as a Pygmalion who cannot get over how "real" his diaphanously clad Galatea is, a true lovely of a girl played by Mary Frann. Another splendid addition to the company is a lissome black dancer and actress, Paula Kelly, whose Circean seductiveness is apparent...
...Venus's-Flytrap. Fittingly enough, Philip (Alec McCowen), the hero of The Philanthropist, is a philologist. In Act I, Philip is insouciantly embroiled in a drawing-room-cum-bedroom farce; in Act II, he is mournfully bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist...
...years since Russia launched Sputnik 1, man has steadily pushed back the frontiers of space. Astronauts have walked on the moon, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 has soft-landed on Venus, and three U.S. Mariner spacecraft have swept past Mars, transmitting detailed pictures back to earth. Now scientists are preparing for an even more far-reaching journey. Last week NASA discussed its plans to launch the first unmanned planetary probe to the outer part of the solar system-a 550-lb. spacecraft that will fly past Jupiter...
...Only four U.S. unmanned shots, all of them flybys, have been sent to Venus...