Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...aromatically pessimistic author of The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates...
...Death of Satan. Poet Ronald Duncan tells a Shavian tale about a nervous Devil who feels that things are going too well in Hell and dispatches Don Juan to earth to find out why. The play's whet-stoned humor makes up for an inadequate production...
Gold, rather than purple, was Russia's royal color. Catherine the Great was married in a sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast...
...with grief and battles, spreads a sinister story that a dark-skinned girl (Hepburn) adopted by the long-dead father of the rancher-hero (Lancaster) is really a "red-hide whelp," a papoose the father rescued from a massacre of Kiowas. The hero asks his mother (Gish) if the tale is true. He is shattered when she says it is. Nevertheless, even though he hates Indians as only a man can whose father has been killed by them, he defends the little "red Niggah" against the Kiowas, who fight to get her back; against the other ranchmen, who want...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank's tale of atomic...