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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is precious little laughter in this text. Even the clown is the merest shadow of his traditional former self. The showing up of Parolles for what he is, though richly deserved, is not really funny. Nor is it comical to see a count try to weasel out of his...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, (SPECIAL TO THE HARVARD SUMMER NEWS) | Title: All's Well That Ends Well | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Like other of Ingmar Bergman's movies, Wild Strawberrries militates for crediting the man with a gift. Here, certainly, as in a fine novel, he has portrayed successfully what others can barely talk about happily.

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: 'Wild Strawberries' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Earle Edgerton, who played a leading role in the HSTG's production of No Exit last summer, will star in the new production as Sheridan Whiteside, the superbly nasty "wit, critic, lecture, radio orator, and intimate friend of the great and near-great" who is marooned by a broken hip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Theater Group to Give 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

L'Aiuola moves on three different levels, the philosophic, the political, and the intimately personal; yet all three are perfectly fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Burnt Flower-Bed | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Classicists have violated the customary translators' code of leaving juicy passages corseted in the original Latin. This version, by a translator who understands the high art of low humor, is conspicuously uncorseted and, what is more unusual, funny.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gutter Odyssey | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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