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...Moony's Kid Don't Cry, the shorter of the two, was the opener and had a cast of two. It is, of course, not a play in the broad sense; it a fragment, an episode in the lives of two people, and as such relies on the individual portrayals for its basic appeal. I found both Donald Stewart and Madelon Hambro more than capable of meeting this challenge; they were able to establish full characterizations in a short period of time with apparent case. Although local theatergoers have had the privilege of watching Stewart before, Miss Hambro, an Emerson...
...first play was directed by its leading player, Stewart, and Michael Mabry handled the second. Whether we are to credit Stewart the director, or Stewart the actor, Moony's Kid seemed just right in pace: The Long Goodbye, another tone piece, was even and absorbing throughout...
...What Made Him Do It?" Outside, a siren wailed and faded. Two cops brought in a 15-year-old Negro on a stretcher. "A kid with the big ideas shot out of him," volunteered one of the cops. "Tried to hold up a grocery, so the groceryman goes for his .38 and lets the kid have it." Almost as an afterthought he added, "The gun the kid had was empty to begin with...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about as bad. One morning, on a bet, a lady known as Prairie Rose walked down its main street in the buff, waving a six-gun in each hand to shoot out any eye that peeked. Thanks to her dead-shot reputation, the prairie...