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...presenting an Orestes which becomes sardonic and satirical. When Appollo arises to save the assembled from destruction in the burning house of Atreum, the deus ex machina is not a convention but a joke; it's almost as if the Glorious Messenger has come to the rescue of Mack the Knife. The disparity between real and ideal which is developed throughout, the absence of any solution to the general corruption, is neatly brought home by Guzzetti's staging of a totally unconvincing resolution...
...Last October in Chicago, two agents in separate cars spotted a well-known narcotics racketeer named Nolan Mack taking a heroin delivery from a second man. Recognizing the agents, Mack leaped into his car and fled. The agents barreled after him. In a dizzying chase, Mack rammed one of the pursuing cars, sent it careening into a lamp pole. The second agent finally cornered Mack. But as the agent scrambled from his car, Mack opened fire. The first bullet creased the agent's temple; the second slammed into a car window, spraying glass into the agent's face...
...Dennis Mack Smith, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, will speak on "Sicily and the Mafia" at 6:15 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...Oklahoma City's Mummers Theater was started 15 years ago by Mack Seism, 36, a graduate in chemical engineering from the University of Oklahoma,who decided that the life of the stage was more interesting than cracking oil. Housed in an old warehouse, the Mummers have set some sort of record by being solvent from the start, especially since they produce Edward Albee and Samuel Beckett as well as surer things like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which closed a successful run last week. "A successful resident theater," says the Ford Foundation, "appears to be dependent upon...
...mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...