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Shaw's own attitude is close to Burgoyne's. This doesn't always come through in the Lyric Theatre's production which makes the humor often seem incidental. Directress Grace Tuttle has gotten some very entertaining seperate scenes however--especially in the last act--and these make the play good...
...ring. Their Russian set of zvon--as opposed to carillion or conventional ding-dong--bells consists of seventeen clangers weighing between 22 pounds and 13 tons. Up to now, at 12:30 on Sundays and once every other week before the famed "high table," the bell-ringers have gotten some nicely coordinated noise from their bells in the cloud-cuckoo-land over Lowell House...
Unfortunately, however, two heats meant that the final placings would have to be determined on times. The officials had gotten themselves into this mess through faulty timing, and now they were opening the way for more confusion. And they had not long to wait. In the last heat, Pedro Galvao of S.M.U. (58.8) beat Lyn Meiring of Oklahoma (58.7) by a stroke. Since the officials had announced that the finals would be determined on times, however, the place judges had to give way to the timers. Meiring had to be given second place over Galvao...
...pretty well stacked against me, apparently," said Estes modestly, "but I have been receiving an awful lot of requests from rankand-file people to enter. I will have to evaluate whether I have enough rank-and-file strength to offset the big bloc of political strength which has gotten behind Mr. Stevenson...
Urban Renewal has gotten no farther. The city had promised the Federal Government to hire an Urban Renewal Coordinator, appoint an Urban Renewal Authority, and set up an agency to enforce the Housing code, all by October 1955. It has thus far done nothing except put a token item in the budget for a Coodinator, and delay action. The city manager, like Diogenes, is looking for a man. The trouble is that he wants a good man to take a bad job, and like Diogenes, the problem is insoluble...