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...prologue to an earlier Marlowe play, The Jew of Malta, the playwright declared: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Faustus holds the same views, but this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years...
...paintings. His fastback hair is peroxide blond, his eyes peep owlishly through black spectacles, and occasionally he sports a gold-lamé dinner jacket. Yorkshire-born Hockney's first one-man show in Manhattan was a sellout when it opened last week. His painting, a poetic blend of childish innocence and sophisticated whimsicality, is often dominated by an edgy displacement of figures in space. His bite is sharp in 16 etchings for The Rake's Progress, a series on his adventures in Manhattan, inspired by Hogarth's classic. California Art Collector, explains Hockney, combines quaintness and caricature...
Only when Sartre was ten was he sent to school, where he found playmates. World War I had started, and its cold realities made his adventure fantasies seem suddenly childish. For several years he was relatively happy. Yet it was too late, for his vocation had already been imposed on him: "the mad enterprise of writing in order to be forgiven for my existence...
Died. Herb Sheldon, 51, impresario of radio and TV kiddie shows, who forswore the clownish costumes and childish twaddle of his colleagues, instead gave pre-teen audiences the scoop about building muscles (spinach helps), crossing streets and watching too much TV, becoming one of NBC's highest-paid stars at $250,000 a year in the 1950s; of a heart attack; in Manhasset...
...Hoffman has played Zapo as a complete childish nincompoop, a character interpretation which makes many of the incidents and many of Zapo's lines seem simply stupid, instead of ingenuous or funny. Nonetheless, his opening scene is delightful, and M. and Mme. Tapon sitting under an umbreila watching the battle is another very nice scene...