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Zweig's version retains the basic plot and much of the humor of the original as well as adding a delightfully cynical prostitute and some anti-clerical wit. Most important, where Jonson's play mocks many types of human affectation and plays for power, Zweig concentrates on the corruption engendered by money...
...late George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart would scarcely have dreamed that a scene like this could form the tender touchstone of their 29-year-old farce-comedy, but Director Ellis Rabb and his gifted APA company have had the wit to see that two people falling honestly in love on a modern stage is a total surprise. They have further grasped that the '30s can be nostalgically re-created as a golden age of moneyless innocence, and that in an era of black comedy, human comedy has vastly appealing warmth...
Died. Alexander King, 66, pungent author and TV wit, an editorial associate of LIFE whose career collapsed in 1945 when he sank into done addiction, but rebounded to new heights in 1959 with explosive appearances on the Tonight show to plug his bestselling memoirs (Mine Enemy Grows Older), giving voice to his acid appraisals of modern art ("a putrescent coma"), advertising ("an overripe fungus") and people in general ("adenoidal baboons"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Ingrid Thulin from Ingmar Bergman's glittering stable, and puts her to posture in one of those lady-in-a-jam thrillers, impossible to believe but easy to enjoy. With a script that gives her lucid intelligence little to fasten upon, Actress Thulin often seems well beyond the wit's end of the character she plays-a Jewish doctor who returns to Paris after World War II, eager to pick up her successful practice and her ne'er-do-well young husband...
...admission, illegitimate, ugly and homosexual. She has managed to put all these dubious assets to some use: she is a writer of autobiographies, of which La Bâtarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others, her self-obsessive use of sex. "Violette Leduc weeps...