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...dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man for All Seasons. Iguana is Tennessee Williams' gentlest play since The Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More. Emlyn Williams is less effective than Paul Scofield was in the role. A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and Jason Robards Jr. rings merry changes on the slightly tired subject of nonconformity. In its second season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary remains a wisecracking play...
...season, the tried and true veterans sing their September Song, hoping by virtue, popularity or sheer ambiance to win a place in the new theatrical year. Top dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man for All Seasons. Iguana is Tennessee Williams' gentlest play since The Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More, with Emlyn Williams less effective than Paul Scofield was in the role. A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title...
...pleasanter time to go Broadway show-shopping than the summer. The productions are seasoned, the fare is varied, and tickets to most attractions are enticingly easy to get. Top dramatic playbilling goes to The Night of the Iguana and A Man for All Seasons. Iguana is Tennessee Williams' gentlest play since The Glass Menagerie, and the wisest play he has ever written. Seasons is a play of wit and probity about a man of wit and probity, Sir Thomas More. On the comedy front, A Thousand Clowns lives up to its title, and rings merry changes on the slightly...
Painters to Be Proud Of. West succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as second president of the Royal Academy, and though he made no secret of his sympathy for the American Revolution, he retained the friendship of George III for most of his life. West was the gentlest of men, and his wife testified that in 40 years of marriage, she had never seen him "in a passion." He was infinitely patient with a somewhat overbearing young student named Gilbert Stuart. He rescued John Trumbull when he landed in jail as an American revolutionary, encouraged him to become the painter...
...Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...