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Most of Pinter's plays, mainly one-acters, have dealt with small, desperate souls in small, unkempt rooms, tuning in on them with cruel precision, but making no attempt to particularize or resolve their dilemmas. Three years ago, his first full-length play, The Birthday Party, was greeted by a chorus of derision from London critics and ran for only a week before audiences averaging 20 people. But Pinter's drab and isolated rooms, surrounded by the menace of the unknown and the uncontrollable, gradually seemed less obscure. The Birthday Party was revived with great success...
...Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Well worth the time of Johnson fans, this full-length biography of the lexicographer was written four years before Boswell's, by a man who knew him considerably longer. The book became a victim of literary feuding, and this is the first printing since the 1780s...
Playwright Wesker's dialectic is flimsy and his metaphor is strained, but his theater is terrific. Transferring such theater to the screen is about as tetchy an operation as carrying nitroglycerin in a sieve, but Director James Hill, in his first full-length film, has done the job with a sure hand. He shuts the spectator up in that hellhole of a kitchen until he feels like a cabbagehead after 74 minutes in a pressure cooker. If Leftist Wesker expects moviegoers, at the end of the film, to rise and shake off their chains, he is going...
...battlefield's edge. As President of the U.S., he entertained such guests as Viscount Montgomery. Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and even Nikita Khrushchev with fragmentary accounts of the battle. And last week, enjoying the uncluttered leisure of retirement, Ike, for the first time, hosted a full-length battlefield tour...
...full-length feature in Full Color and Shochiku GrandScope is being shown for the first time in the Eastern United States. Produced by the largest film firm in Japan, "Kaza-Hana" is written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, one of Japan's noted names in the movie industry...