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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 27 issue contained an article about Fabian. This article was obviously written by some poor, misled jerk. I hope that in the future you will have a little more respect for a great teen-age idol...
...Chilean towns, from Farellones to Villarrica, share the boom. Yet the new look of the mountains is most exciting at Portillo, the big resort built by the government in 1947 and then almost written off as a total failure. The idea was to provide a setting like something out of an old Sonja Henie film. The international set. though, was not about to travel to the bottom of the world, board a chuffy little train and travel for five hours to the edge of nowhere...
When Beerbohm Tree was first faced with producing this tale of "the boy who would not grow up" in 1904, he attempted to defer the production, feeling certain that Barrie had gone quite mad to have written such an escapist play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter...
This production uses the music written by the English composer John Crooke for the original production. When the play was published some thirty years later, Barrie himself penned a dedicatory perface in which he made point of praising the old Crooke music as "delightful." He was right: the various pieces are tuneful, and appropriate to the changing moods. Crooke's music has been tastefully scored for harpsichord and woodwinds by John Brockington, who appears briefly as the pirate Jukes...
...Fille de France, was something of a royal office joke. But since the office was the 17th century French court-Louis XIII was her uncle, Louis XIV her first cousin-the lady left footnotes in the sands of time. Biographer V. (for Victoria Mary) Sackville-West, 67, has written a witty, informal, entertaining book about the bedeviled woman who was known not by her titles, but with simple Bourbon haughtiness as plain Mademoiselle...