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...Iowa-born Hal Banks proved as tough a customer as the Communists he was imported to rout. As boss of the Seafarers' International Union of Canada, he rigged union elections and bullied shippers; opponents of the S.I.U. and members of rival seamen's unions were endlessly threatened, beaten and shot at. Banks ran up extravagant expense accounts, got a new white Cadillac from the union yearly. In 1960 the Canadian Labor Congress expelled the 15,000-man S.I.U. as a "hoodlum empire," set up a competing maritime union. Shrugged Banks: "I've had to fight finks...
...advance the art, Hal Lipset, a seasoned San Francisco private eye, maintains a laboratory behind a false warehouse front where his eavesdropping "genius," Ralph Bertsche, works out new gimmicks such as a high-powered bug that fits into a pack of filter-tip cigarettes. It is padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...Hal Holbrook is bouncy, boyish and blunt in the title role, and David Wayne's Great Khan suggests a sage who is more than makeup-deep. But Zohra Lampert, as a princess who falls helplessly in love with Venice's merchant prince, is as woefully miscast as she is woundingly lovely. The recurring plaint about Broadway's producers is that they do not know a bad play when they see one. Marco Millions raises the question even more pointedly. Why, with all its own resources and innumerable classics to draw from, did the Lincoln Repertory directors shoot...
...heroic" title role originally created by Alfred Lunt, Hal Holbrook conveys all the get-up-and-go, insensitivity, and mindlessness that anyone could demand. It is obvious that, even in his visit to Xanadu, Marco would not recognize a stately pleasure-dome if he saw one. David Wayne looks admirably like the 75-year old Kublai Khan, but he often does not act like one; I could not persuade myself that the man I was looking at was the man I was listening to. Zohra Lampert shows us an appealing Princess Kukachin, love-smitten yet unrequited; but she overexerts...
...paper, the group is an assembled dream. The permanent acting company consists of 26 actors working under 2½year contracts, and includes such names as Jason Robards Jr., David Wayne, Hal Holbrook, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Zohra Lampert and Salome Jens. About half the actors are young newcomers who are being trained as they go, both in productions and in daily classes that have been going on for more than a year. The group's guiding lights are Robert Whitehead, who was one of Broadway's most successful producers (Member of the Wedding), and Director Elia Kazan...