Of Mice and Men (opera) George, at the urging of Candy and Lennie, reads the want ad aloud to them once again as the curtain falls. SCENE ONE. Lennie is disconsolate at having inadvertently killed his puppy, and is hiding it in the loft of the barn when Curley's wife enters, carrying a suitcase and obviously preparing to leave the ranch. She and Lennie begin to confide their dreams and fantasies to each other, neither aware the other is speaking: hers, a glamorous career as a movie star; his, to have pets on his farm. Lennie tells her of his love of stroking soft things,
The Last Hunt (novel) The Last Hunt (novel) The Last Hunt was written by Milton Lott while he was in one of George R. Stewart's classes. Lott worked on the novel while in school, and received a fellowship from Houghton Mifflin to finish the book. The book was made into a movie. It was published in German by the Deutsche Hausbücherei in 1956 as Die letzte Jagd. The story is set in the 19th century, and deals with the lives of two men, whose cattle herd is wiped out by a storm. The men go into the buffalo hunting business. The novel deals with