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...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make good reading...
...FIRST DAY OF FRIDAY, by Honor Tracy. Although this light satire about an impoverished Irish vicar does not quite make it down the author's Straight and Narrow Path, it is still mad enough to make very good reading...
...drama is called Der Stellvertreter, a title that has been translated as The Representative or The Deputy, hut is perhaps best rendered as The Vicar-in echo of the title Vicar of Christ on Earth, which is one of the official designations of Roman Catholic Popes. The first play of Germany's Rolf Hochhuth, 32, it ran for five months last season in West Berlin's Free People's Theater, is now showing in Stockholm, Basel and at London's Royal Shakespeare Theater...
...mention balmy. One girl natters on about an unexploded German bomb buried in the club garden. Another dresses endlessly for an imaginary dinner date with a famous British actor. A wholesome vicar's daughter gives elocution lessons and keeps the rafters ringing at odd moments with bits of Byron and snatches of Shakespeare. "Joanna Childe," the author says, describing the girl in one of those thumbnail assessments that keep her books blessedly brief, "had a good intelligence and strong obscure emotions . . . she loved poetry rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds...
...principal assets -a taffeta Schiaparelli dress that is lent around among the sleeker girls for evenings on the town. Does lust for a Schiaparelli justify the burning of Eden? Is Author Spark just pulling the reader's leg? A final scene is not much help. In it, the vicar is told that his poetry-loving daughter believed in the existence of Hell. "Really?" he replies with dismay. "I've never heard her speak morbidly. It must have been the influence of London...