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...playfulness of Shaw's vision in the early parts. As the play draws on, however, the production stretches a bit thin. By the time the curtain rises on the dancing children of the 320th century, in Part 5, it appears that evolution has led to a Swedish gym class in a grove of neon tubes...
...keeping, with Kahn's playground concept, Karl Eigsti has designed a large frame with a tall swing suspended at the stage-right side and a sort of jungle-gym at stage-left. Then there are some red mental barrels, used now to sit on, now to pound on, now to warm cold hands over...
...Davy in 2 Henry IV was Justice Shallow's servant and not Falstaff's). When the Boy is left alone with a field of corpses, he slowly wanders about, deeply, shaken and unhardened by his hands. Espying the approach of two enemy French soldiers, he scampers up the jungle-gym. But the soldiers pursue and overtake him, coldly spear him, and depart leaving one more corpse on the silent stage. None of this is specified, but it is deeply affecting...
...Naval Radio School, which had started with a small group of University scientists in the Cruft Laboratory, had expanded by the fall of 1918 to 6300 students occupying Memorial Hall, Pierce Hall, Hemenway Gym and specially built barracks on the Cambridge Common. By spring 1919, however, the school was on its way to Chicago...
Growing legions of chairbound executives labor through pushups on the bedroom floor at dawn, or spend their lunch hours performing similar strenuous rituals in a gym. Bent on prolonging their useful lives, they pedal, bounce, pull and jog, sweating and puffing off excess fat. More and more companies encourage their employees to lose weight, but none have been quite so imaginative as Lowe's Inc. of Cassopolis, Mich. Lowe's is best known as the manufacturer of Kitty Litter, a granulated clay that is used to line cat boxes. The firm, which had sales...