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Most of the classical revivals at the National smell just as strongly of the lamp. Both Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd lie open and inert on the stage, as if they were exams to be passed and not theatrical experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being...
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Salesman Lyon is Philip Morris' field commander. Its generalissimo is a man as different from him as Turkish tobacco from burley-a lanky, shy Virginian, Otway Hebron Chalkley. Vice President Lyon is breezy and backslapping, President Chalkley taciturn, reserved, at ease with finance and factory but not with strangers...
Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...
...walled, moat-bound Colonial Charles Town (named for the Restoration's merry monarch) in the Province of Carolina there came in 1733 a group of strolling players led by an efficient, talented actress remembered only as Monimia, the character she played for the eager Colonists in Otway's The Orphan, or The Unhappy Marriage. Interest in Monimia's muse was far greater than Charles Town's court house could accommodate, even at 40s. a head...