Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were marooned alone on an island for a long time and could have only one such-and-such, which one would you choose?" Were I confronted with such a choice from the complete plays of Shakespeare, I should pick Macbeth to have on my shipwrecked island (the wit would of course state a preference for The Tempest...
...Major), the first written when Mozart was 9, the last when he was 31, just before he finished Don Giovanni. The treasures here are the Sonata No. 4 in F Major and the Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Pianists Haebler and Hoffmann play them with leafy serenity, geysering wit, and a crystal touch that never grows hard or metallic...
...RELUCTANT DRAGON (Caedmon) tells of a poetry-loving dragon forced against his will into fighting St. George at 6-4 odds. Except when he becomes too coyly patronizing, Boris Karloff spins his tale with wit, makes it as appealing to adult listeners as its author's far more famous yarn, The Wind in the Willows...
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 in the home of what appears to be an aggressively ordinary Ohio family. Mikel Lambert, a student at the Summer School, will play his romantically involved secretary, and Marguerite Tarrant, a student at the Yale School of Drama, will appear as a nymphomaniacally inclined actress...
Around the World on ?5. Belle was a born courtesan, and she was proud of her profession. Her definition of the term owes less to Webster's dictionary ("a loose woman") than it does to Larousse's (a woman of "wit and elegance"), and she is historically correct in her estimate of the social importance of the courtesan in European society before World War I. It was the era of the marriage of convenience, and wives were apt to fit Lord Beresford's description of "county" women-their pearls were real, but their hair was a mess...