The Cocktail Party The Cocktail Party The Cocktail Party is a play by T. S. Eliot. Elements of the play are based on "Alcestis", by the Ancient Greek playwright Euripides. The play was the most popular of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime, although his 1935 play, "Murder in the Cathedral", is better remembered today. It was written while Eliot was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948. "The Cocktail Party" was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949. In 1950 the play had successful runs in London and New York theaters (the Broadway production received the 1950
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945 film) he is home to stay. "Wanderer of the Wasteland" was filmed on location in the Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, California. "Wanderer of the Wasteland" was released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 1, 1945 in the United States. The film was reissued on June 16, 1951. Upon its theatrical release, "Wanderer of the Wasteland" received generally poor reviews. The reviewer for the "New York Times" called the film a "soporific little Western" and a "pallid and static picturization", while praising the performances of James Warren and Richard Martin who "supply the few flickers of spirit and humor" in the