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...Hodges as Huck and Pugilist Archie Moore as Jim). Before season's end a total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances of his one-man show, Mark Twain Tonight!, in more than 250 cities. An added measure of Mark Twain's enduring success is financial. Although he nearly always had to scramble for money, had miserable luck as an investor...
...Gloucestershire of Shallow and Silence. He is still marvelously exuberant, ingenious, incorrigible, but his revels are now ending. He and his cronies, whether sluts or simpletons, are tarnished with age and touched with pathos. But. more than that. Henry IV draws near his end, and soon a playboy Hal's untroubled head must wear the crown. Shakespeare now, against the last thinned merrymaking of rascals, counterposes the making of a king. The self-condemning new voung monarch is suddenly self-reformed, is indeed a little holier-than-thou, and a great deal royaler, as he moves forward toward what...
Henry IV, Part I. The repertory group of Manhattan's Phoenix Theater has done so well with Falstaff, Hotspur, and Prince Hal that it has decided to do Part II when the present run ends April...
Tomatoes & Jail. Others offered equally frank, fascinating glimpses of political life. Hal Kierce, deputy director of Jersey City's parks department, explained how democracy functions: "In real life the average voter doesn't have much to say about the choice of candidates." Attorney Francis X. Hayes gave some career counseling: "Percentagewise, in politics the chances for material rewards are greater for the lawyer than the layman." Hudson County Sheriff William Flanagan delved into history and also infuriated Republicans (who are threatening to sue) by suggesting that Republicans stuffed the ballot box at midnight in 1954 to assure...
...Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well-spoken tapestry King; only the Hal falls short, from too metronomic a speech and schoolboy...