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...lost causes. In the 19th century the family invested less shrewdly, and by the time Harry was 15, the Byrds were on the brink of bankruptcy. He quit school, took over management of a family newspaper and made it prosper. He also staked out a small patch of orchard near the little town of Berryville, expanded his preserve until it encompassed 5,000 acres, and eventually became the world's largest individual applegrower. Once established as the squire of Rosemont, his baronial estate in the lush, pristine hills near the state's northern border, Byrd plunged into Virginia...
...CHERRY ORCHARD (Caedmon). The Minnesota Theater Company, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, gives a balanced rendition of Chekhov's complex last play. The playwright set out to write a comedy about the social types in a changing Russia, but his characters, while absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk...
...main stage, 100 ft. wide, 80 ft. deep, is bordered on the sides and rear by motorized stage wagons. In a dazzling display of sleight-of-hand, the main stage can drop 28 ft. into the subterranean storage chambers and emerge with a teahouse, garden, bridge and cherry orchard all ready for Madame Butterfly's entrance. Meanwhile, the three wagons can be loaded with upcoming scenes and wait to glide into the center-stage slot at the push of a.button. For other effects, the backstage Merlins can conjure up storms and floods, encircle Brunnhilde in flame and smoke...
...will have three by next year. Two new campuses of the University of California, those at Santa Cruz (TIME, May 13) and San Diego, are building from scratch on the cluster principle. The University of Massachusetts teaches 60 sections of freshman and sophomore courses in its two-year-old Orchard Hill residential complex; freshmen at the University of West Virginia can take most of their required courses in their Twin Towers dormitory...
...swiftly succumbs to a vivacious blonde postal clerk (Marie-France Boyer). The girl becomes his mistress, and he is happier than ever. One day, at yet another family picnic, his wife asks why. François forthrightly explains: "You, me, the kids, we're like an apple orchard inside a fence. Then I see another apple outside-." Though she is not at all sure that she likes those apples, the wife lets François make love to her once more while the children sleep. A little while afterward, she slips away and drowns herself. At the film...