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Today surrealism's headquarters is a dignified old mansion on Manhattan's fashionable East Side, overlooking the East River at the point where Nathan Hale was hanged by the British...
Died. Tapiola, 7, Yorkshire terrier hero of Novelist Robert Nathan's Tapiola's Brave Regiment and Journey of Tapiola: of injuries in a fight; in Purchase...
...Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them...
Rather unexpectedly, the play comes to life not in its dramatic scenes but in its didactic ones. At such moments, even in Refugee Bruckner's halting translation, Nathan the Wise has timeliness and force. The rest of the time it is cluttered with an old-fashioned plot that, in spite of being remarkably complicated, is even more remarkably static...
...general is Matthew Fox, balding (at 31), egg-shaped vice president of Universal Pictures who went to Washington a month ago to trouble-shoot for Bob Nathan's WPB Planning Board (TIME, March 2). The committees in 46 States who are collecting old rubber, paper, rags, metal-above all, iron and steel-are doing earnest work, but Matt Fox concluded that more was needed...