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...events that occurred before the play's action begins. Nothing new is happening, and in a musical this is unbearable. Not only that, but when we finally do learn the three-year-old scandal of Man Stamon and Mayor Quinn, it is confusingly presented; catalyst characters like Josie Finn are sufficiently undefined to screw...
...Reivers is a raucous, good-natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers...
...student union at Helsinki's School of Economics. What he and his fellows did was organize a floating exhibition of Finnish products on a 10,000-ton ferry, then anchor it last fall beneath London's Tower Bridge. More than 100 firms participated in the "Finn-focus" exhibit, which produced $5,000,000 in export orders...
When Paul Meyer attended the Missouri Military Academy seven years ago, it occurred to the school president. Colonel Charles Stribling Jr., that he seemed a bit like Huckleberry Finn. Last week Air Force Sergeant Meyer, 23, a Viet Nam veteran and crew chief of four-engine C-130 Hercules transports, took off on a kind of raft Huck Finn never dreamed of. Unfortunately, he did not manage so happy an ending...
Thatcher Shellaby, Rob Jackson, Terry Finn, Glenn deChabert and Dan Peters fill out the regular lineup. The last two names are more familiar to LAB devotees for their important roles in the 76-70 game...