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...conventional approach to Chekhov emphasizes detachment and the fine etching of character. The proscenium arch is mandatory, the sets are deep, the action well separated from the audience. The long, pregnant pause is preferred to the passionate cry. This approach plays up the interaction of secondary "characters" for poignancy and comic effect, and plays down the potential melodrama of violent love, suicide and duels. Jonathan Black's staging of The Seagull at the Loeb last season was a fine production within this convention...
Married. Brian Donlevy, 63, now playing the mad scientist in Hollywood's The Curse of the Fly; and Lillian Arch Lugosi, 54, ex-wife of the late Bela (Dracula) Lugosi; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indio, Calif...
...seemed the particular property of the villains. Matt Conley in the most unkindest role of all, the bastard Edmund, exercised enough wit and restraint to stay this side of melodrama. But Regan (Phoebe Brand) and Goneril (Ludi Claire) ranted and raved, groaned and grimaced. Robert Benedict's Oswald was arch and despicable, Nick Smith's Cornwall took appropriate relish in kicking out Gloucester's eyes; these actors' evil was far too lunatic to be cruel. The audience tittered...
Coach Weiland called a special Sunday practice to try to whip the squad into shape for tonight's Bear Pot in Boston Garden. Harvard meets Northeastern at 7 p.m., and Boston University faces off against arch-rival Boston College in the nighteap. The B.U. Terriers, 17.4 overall and 13-1 in Eastern play, are favored to win the 14th annual Bean Pot., The return of All-Americans Jack Ferreira and Tommy Ross should build up their attack...
...Plastic is the material of the present, of the future," says Vivier. He swears his plastic shoes won't cut or heat up the foot (there are tiny airholes along the arch). In fact, he sees the new plastique as an engineering feat: "Nothing is more flattering. These shoes lengthen the foot, make it look narrower, and even seem to make big feet look smaller...