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Playgoers are almost forced to ponder the nature of humor by Comedians. It is a hilarious-abrasive, funny-unfunny analysis-cwra-demonstration of why we laugh at all. Six Manchester men with dead-end jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod-final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...including four professors at Cleveland State University Law School, have promised free legal aid. Says one of the group, Kevin Sheard: "We're trying to equalize the scale a little bit. They've got the entire U.S. Government on one side, with all its resources, against eight workingmen who were called into service to assist the state...
...liked to quote a Catalan poet, Joan Maragall, who wrote: "To take flight to Heaven, we must stand on the firm soil of our native land." And he sometimes told about Luis Companys, president of Catalonia under the Spanish Republic. Casals had met him while conducting concerts for the Workingmen's Concert Association he'd organized and playing the cello at benefits for Loyalist Spain. After the fascists triumphed, Companys was executed. "When he faced the firing squad," Casals said, "Companys lit a cigarette and then he removed his shoes and socks. He wanted to die with his feet touching...
There is no sign as yet that French workingmen are ready to join the students in the streets as they did in 1968. But the students may yet make good on the forecast that they chanted through Paris last week: "Chaud, chaud, chaud, le printemps sera chaud!" (It's going to be a long, hot spring...
That's the Digger, Jerry Doherty. Big, tough, dumb-smart, the owner of a workingmen's bar. A sometime crook who has done time for possession of stolen TV sets. Now he's in trouble. He's flown out to Las Vegas and he's signed $18,000 worth of markers. He doesn't have the money. Digger's immediate problem is the Greek. It is the Greek who must collect the $18,000 plus $400 a week vigorish. He's tough, of course, but the idea of twisting the Digger...