Word: ladders
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Perhaps no theater is large enough to hold the White Whale, and Welles intelligently lets audience imagination do the work of stage realism. He conceives of a turn-of-the-century acting troupe doing a sort of tryout rehearsal of a new drama, Moby Dick. A tall ladder serves for a mast, benches for longboats, and furled and swaying sails complete the Nantucket whaler Pequod. Pages of the novel are cut to stage cues, and the second and final act cuts to the mortal sea chase, which Director Douglas Campbell handles with brisk and believable intensity...
...voice. The son of a judge, Ryan was graduated from Princeton and Columbia Law School, served his stint in World War II combat, and worked for seven years in the N.Y. District Attorney's office. With this background, he might have chosen to scramble quickly up the existing political ladder...
John Vinton will play four and Lou Williams five. Terry Robinson, Alan Terrel, and Alex McDonald will hold down the six, seven and eight positions, and Terry Winslow and John Frances will complete the ladder at nine...
...people ("Are they students or townies?" asked a shy Yalie) were escorted into a paddy wagon, one for "standing on a ladder...
...Because you're standing on a ladder...