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Allan Katz

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Though Isaac Bashevis Singer still writes his short stories in Yiddish, and though his style and subject matter place him

The Cool World: Frederick Wiseman

Shirley Clarke, director of the film version of The Connection and several award-winning short subjects, is now casting for her

The Flies

Sartre achieves in The Flies, as he does in most of his plays, the geometric clarity which his nondramatic writing

Playboy of Western World

George Hamlin's maiden voyage as a director at the Loeb is a roaring success. The play is a happy choice,

Caligula

The Dunster House Drama Workshop has anticipated my feeling (more precisely, my lack of feeling) about Caligula; they quote in

Romeo and Juliet

If Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as a pair of star crossed puppies, as they are in the Quincy House

The Alchemist

Masturbatory daydreams do not make good theater. There is sex enough in The Alchemist to justify it as the focus

Peer Gynt

The Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure

Comedie Francaise: Moliere

L'Impromptu de Versailles is a play within a play within a play within a play, and the theme of all

Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas

A review of such a joyous and holy work as Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas would be a desecration. So

The Section Man

Amos Queensly's first novel, The Section Man, is a masterful parody of one of the outstanding novels of recent years,

All My Sons

All My Sons is an early Arthur Miller effort (I believe it was his second play to be produced), and

Villains, Saints and Comedians: Jewish Types in English Fiction

There is no scarcity of books about Jews in English literature. Critics feel obliged to attack English literature for having

The Hammer of the Mountain

The Hammer of the Mountain, by Firman Houghton is subtitled "A Grave Comedy in Three Acts." The feeble pun on

Hollywood Star Attacks CRIMSON For Award Given by LAMPOON

Sal Mineo, star of Walt Disney's motion picture, Tonka, called Harvard CRIMSON editors "idiots" for naming him the worst actor

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