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...believe that the Zemach David group and myself stand for the same principle, to wit: they want their religious rules and laws obeyed and adhered to, and we of the town want the town laws and ordinances religiously followed within reasonable tolerance...
...languid pose, of feats of personality and triumphs of playwriting. In the second half, which begins with Wilde's imprisonment, Mac Liammoir portrays the reviled man, the repentant sinner, the reproaches in De Profundis to his fellow sinner Lord Alfred Douglas, and the last salvation-seeking, wit-flecked Paris years...
...opposing companies, Corneille, courtiers, and a variety of inexpressibly minor playwrights. What is more, he sets up standards of performance which the Comedie Francaise has been achieving (with few lapses) ever since. The play is slight, compared to Moliere's more serious or more farcical efforts, but its brilliant wit and perfect construction make it no more dated than, say, Blake's or Pope's jibes at their contemporaries...
Divorce investigates with wry delight how feelings are ground small in the legal machinery. A lawyer has the best line: "But you have to have grounds for divorce! Drugs, drink, television . . ." The Single Woman (written by Marcel Aymé) describes with sly wit a major calamity in the career of a professional polygamist: he falls in love...
Died. Sir Thomas Beecham, 81, a musical prodigy who never lost his genius for conducting or his gift for sarcastic wit; of a stroke; in London (see Music...