Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother's got to work," mused Dorothy Parker, speaking of herself. "Mother hasn't written anything since the New England Primer." Author Parker, 56, rhymester-wit of the '20s (Enough Rope), more recently a scenarist (The Fan), was back in Manhattan after a long stint in Hollywood ("Two years out there and you'd go anywhere") and a three-month vacation in the tiny Mexican village of Acapantzingo, where she found the Indians magnificent and the countryside "beautiful, terrifying. . . I felt that I could live and die there, but I realized that I was doing neither...
American history (and legend) had begun. Few Americans, of course, had the wit to recognize it in the making. Yet here & there a quick eye, a sharp ear and a busy pen took note of the rich, small doings of 17th Century American life. These early histories, diaries, memoirs and letters, vivid scribbles on the cuff of history, have mostly been suppressed into the dreary, quoteless grey of the professional historian's page. America Begins gives a glimpse of the real wonderland behind that dingy looking glass...
...current offering at the Pilgrim goes a long way towards disproving the movie industry's latest promotion poster (to wit: Movies Are Better Than Ever). Rupert is, of all things, a squirrel; the picture is the latest vehicle for Jimmy Durante...
...story: the first concerns a young country-bred wife (Margery Pinchwife) who is trying to escape from the close confinement exercised by her aging roue husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain access (for purposes easily imagined) to the wives and daughters of unsuspecting friends and associates. How these plots are connected and what strategems are used...
...this catching of the whole spirit of the comedy which makes the Brattle production so fine. Along with the plot, which depends exclusively on adultery for motive force, the audience is treated to a display of elegant costumes, elegant sets, and elegant epigrammatic wit...