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...becomes Lady Bracknell. Tzara (Tim Curry) comes on with a pair of scissors, slices up a Shakespeare sonnet, dumps the lines into a top hat, and extrapolates them as gibberish to show that antiart reigns supreme. In the Wildean substructure of Travesties, Tzara doubles as John Worthing (Earnest in town-Jack in the country). Carr once again plays his friend Algy. Lenin (Harry Towb) has no role in Earnest. Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist in a workers' state, but later tearfully melts at the playing of Beethoven's Appassionato...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dance of Words | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...BOOM TOWN-Jack O'Connor-Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arizona Hemingway | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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