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Thursday, July 22, 2021

Shadow Box Profile:  Location, Location, Location

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MICHENER: Returning in the dark from a routine mission my pilot kept missing the poorly lit New Caledonia air strip. We braced for a crash landing, just made it, and were badly shaken. If I had died, I would have left nothing behind. I was approaching 40, mind you. That near crash prompted me to draft South Pacific stories running through my mind.

QUESTIONER: Your first draft was written on the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, south of Guadalcanal, in a Quonset hut, by pecking at a typewriter with your two index fingers. What was the story line?

MICHENER: Tales of the South Pacific consisted of 18 loosely connected stories about the comedy, boredom, shenanigans of Navy life on a Pacific island between military battles. The stories showed the interplay of Navy men, Navy nurses, and conniving natives; the funny aspects of military planes, jeeps, bulldozers, canned goods imposed on simple people living on beautiful islands.

Comedy and Boredom —

Shenanigans —

Special Island

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 pm

The author of remarks on Frisette  in the previous post

Other South Pacific material —

"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."

— Song lyic inspired by James Michener,
     quoted here yesterday afternoon

"Into eternity" — James Joyce

Tréguer Today —

History of Drama 101: The Farce

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:20 am

(Suggested by a recent Instagram post.)

https://wordhistories.net/2017/07/10/
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Box and Cox  is largely based on Frisette , a one-act vaudeville by the French playwrights Eugène Labiche (1815-88) and Auguste Lefranc (1814-78), first staged at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, on Tuesday 28th April 1846. In this play, Madame Ménachet, the housekeeper, rents out, without their knowledge, the same room to Gabriel Gaudrion, a baker’s assistant, who uses it during the day, and to Frisette, a lace-maker, who uses it during the night. . . . . 

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A scene from Frisette

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

“Here am I, your special lockscreen” — Adapted show tune

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:05 pm

"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."

— Song lyic inspired by James Michener

I prefer Gary Cooper in Return to Paradise .

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