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...world that it is not a hick cow town any more and keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each way. Now I'm 14 minutes door to door, and I live on a farm...
...ruby, in the book. The Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan, who never went far enough, for Baum, towards removing the farmer from his "cross of gold." The Wicked Witch of the West, then as now, is the Republican party. And the Wizard of Oz is none other than Grover Cleveland, who promised free silver and then told his supporters to wait. The details can be filled in cleverly enough to almost convince you Paul is dead. It's too bad the Dunster House Drama Society didn't stage a revisionist Wizard of Oz that would have brought out these...
Died. Richard F. Cleveland, 76, eldest son of Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a prominent Maryland attorney; in Baltimore. Cleveland, who represented Whittaker Chambers in the libel suit brought by Alger Hiss, was active in the presidential campaigns of one Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and three Republicans, Alfred Landon, Wendell Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Dollar Pier in Atlantic City-despite the fact that Mrs. Noah wouldn't let it shove off without Cain as well as Abel. Novelist Thornton Wilder has re-created 18th century Peru (The Bridge of San Luis Rey), and ancient Rome (The Cabala). In Our Town, he made Grover's Corners, N.H., into some sort of Eternal City of the heart. After all that, it is not much of a hop to Newport, R.I., in the sunny summer...
Granted that the show is an entertainment hybrid, Writer-Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett is unstinting in his professionalism. Aided by Grover Dale, Bob Avian and Tommy Tune, Bennett's dances have a carnal thrust that evokes aspects of both the play and work life of the city. One balloon-saturated number featuring the elongatedly energetic 6-ft. 6-in. Tommy Tune is a bit like meeting E.E. Cummings' mythical "goat-footed balloonMan" in Central Park in the spring...