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Ever since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began potting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bwana Brummel | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

This summer marked the thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Douglas Deane is a polished song-and-dance man. And Edward Finnegan (remembered for his fine portrayal in The Potting Shed at this theatre last summer) makes the most of the clergyman shocked to find that the words of "the Great Agnostic" can issue out of the mouths of babes...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: MID-SUMMER | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

This new play enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway this spring; and fortunately it has come to Boston for two weeks? Let me say at once that The Potting Shed is a truly distinguished work--amazingly so for a second attempt. As a matter of fact it was by far...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Potting Shed | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

The Potting Shed has been billed as a "suspense drama" and a "mystery thriller." Both terms are quite accurate. But the play is not a whodunit; it is rather a whatdidhe. It concerns James Callifer, who, good newspaperman that he is, tries to ferret out the story of what happened...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Potting Shed | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

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