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...Mousetrap. The Leverett House Arts Society's production of an Agatha Christie murder mystery about eight people snow-bound in a manor house. Check it out if you haven't caught it in London yet, where it's been running continuously for the last 23 years or so. Directed by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last year. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library Theater October 30 and 31, and November 1,2, 5-8, at 8 p.m. Special Halloween performance at midnight...
...dead in the middle of a Yugoslavian blizzard that turns the entire screen white for just a moment. The train is utterly isolated, one of those Agatha Christie devices--like the island cut off from civilization in And Then There Were None or the remote country house in The Mousetrap--that are patently ridiculous but serve as the ground rules for an entertaining game...
Hound has its critics watching a whodunit parodied from Agatha Christie's long-running The Mousetrap. They ramble on to themselves between acts, testing net phrases for their reviews. They speed-reed their programs and eat chocolates. They compare quotations: Birdfoot's review that was completely reproduced in neon, for instance. "Oh that thing, yes, I just happen to have a couple of color transparencies of it here in my pocket." Robert Vaughn, in little soloquies complete with Shakespearean intonation, worries about his rivals Higgs (first string) and Puckeridge (third string). Michael Egan, tremendous and goateed, is perfect...
...trapped by a blizzard in a provincial guesthouse with a maniacal killer. But Murder Manufacturer Agatha Christie said optimistically, "I do think we will get quite a good run out of it," as she signed over all royalties to her grandson Mathew Prichard, 9. Twenty-one years later, The Mousetrap has become the longest running play ever, totting up 8,717 performances in London and earning $7.5 million. Prichard, now 30 and a gentleman farmer in Wales, declined to comment on the extent of his fortune, and gallantly accompanied his benefactor Dame Agatha, 83, to a party celebrating the historic...
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door-provided that adequate financing can be arranged to cover initial production and marketing expenses. As many an underfinanced entrepreneur has learned, the road to penury is paved with good inventions. Now there is an invention designed especially to provide backing for fledgling tycoons: the venture capital industry. After a decade or so of ups and downs, it is emerging as one of the most important sources of funds for new businesses...