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...Pace Gallery (125 Newbury St.) is a show of recent wood sculpture by Hugh Townley. He is an extremely talented artist, whose work seems among the most interesting of recent sculpture. I prefer his large reliefs made up of several types of wood, but his oversized "chessmen" and his colored drawings are also fine. Unfortunately, the current exhibit is somewhat thin. There are no recent works of major scale, and I am afraid that the New York branch of this gallery may have sold off the best things there...
Despite the deadness of these entries, there is a lot of potential in some of the other works. The technical quality is quite high on the whole, and sometimes the tricks do create a pleasing effect. Especially good is Walter Krupsaw's melange of chessmen and nuclear tracks, and the quiet and lightness given to a clump of river weeds by a subtle overexposure...
...titleholder, Vassily Smyslov, in a "Peace Fund" benefit match that enthralled 15,000 Muscovites. So were the king, queen, and all the other pieces in the latest Marxist evolution of an ancient Oriental version of chess. But unlike the Eastern game-in which, according to legend, the chessmen were prisoners of war, and once taken, were beheaded-the Soviet game employed beauteous ballerinas and assorted other troupers, each of whom, upon being captured, put on a performance. So distracting, in fact, was the circus atmosphere (the show stopper: a satirical song that went, "Kings get five-room apartments Knights...
Advise and Consent. Equipped with an all-but-complete set of political chessmen, the shallow but suspenseful Broadway adaptation of the bestselling novel pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto...
Being equipped with an all but complete set of political chessmen, Advise and Consent pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto, keeps crying Check! with particular relish, and in the course of the evening makes almost every known move on the board. Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts. The nose puncher swaggers forward, the back stabber lies in wait; the party hack mumbles Yes, sir; the man above party shouts Never! In the play's high-stake memory test, wherein the nominee's years...