Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Classic, Medieval. On the whole, the translation is excellent (see box). In fact, it is superior to the English original in at least one respect: Milne's occasionally cloying cuteness cannot be rendered in the sober Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster...
...Home, the Broadway adaptation of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, opened at the Belasco Theater the end of November, won mixed but generally favorable reviews. But the next day's box office gross was a leukemic $882. Commenting that "they killed us with respect," Producers Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor announced that All the Way would close after four performances...
...Box office sales leaped to $5,700 a day, helped by private citizens who believed so strongly in the play that they made phone calls to friends at the rate of 50 a day, others who took newspaper ads at their own expense to urge people to hurry to the Belasco. By week's end, All the Way Home had been extended at least until the first of the year. If it runs less than six months, a lot of hats will be up for eating...
Hope & Specifics. If Dr. Blake's plan could be translated into practice, the new church would have 17,800,000 members (see box), approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...hope for original theater in America. It costs too much to fail on Broadway; the risks make creativity too expensive. Off-Broadway, however, a production can be launched economically, and thus financial criteria needn't be the ultimate standards for new work. The loss would be great if the box office became more important than the stage off-Broadway...