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This story is obviously too frail to carry the show, but the music saves it, magnificently. Marcia Ramsey is the lady responsible for several of the excellent songs. The tunes do not commit the sin of great originality but they do have an appealing freshness (Harvardmen would be advised, however, to attend the show with a Wellesley date who can translate some of the more escoteric in jokes...
Gideon, now 52, already had a prison record when he was arrested in 1961, charged with breaking into a pool hall with intent to commit burglary. At his trial in a Florida state court, he asked the judge to appoint a lawyer to defend him. The judge denied the request, pointed out that under Florida law the court was required to appoint counsel only when a person was charged with a capital crime. Gideon conducted his own defense, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. When the Supreme Court ruled on his petition last March...
Grubbing for Gold. The Russians were hesitant to submit an official or der, wanted advance assurance from Washington that it would be approved. President Kennedy was reluctant to commit himself until he got assurance from congressional conservatives that they would not clobber him at some future date for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Compounding confusion, Premier Khrushchev made it sound as if he no longer wanted the wheat by declaring: "If we use bread economically, the resources we now have will be sufficient for the normal supply of the population." Taking Khrushchev's words to mean that...
...Rehearsal, by Jean Anouilh. The world will ferret out purity and destroy it-this is the theme that obsesses Anouilh. In The Rehearsal, the worldlings commit an "elegant and sophisticated crime," the murder of the true love, as undeniably transfiguring as it is seemingly banal, that exists between a jaded French count and a virginal governess. Around this crime Anouilh has fashioned a subtle, scintillating, and bitter black comedy. The ironic gaiety is inverted mourning, the unseen tears are those that disillusionment sheds over its lost illusions...
...believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth...