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...premiered in New York) both understood his part and spoke it clearly; if he has conquered opening-night nervousness, his reading ought to set a standard for the rest of the cast. Patrick Diehl, a splendid basso, made the lusting quack, Mr. Waldo, seem a lovable rogue. And Mary Moss, playing a variety of loose women, could hardly have been improved upon (her singing was off-key, but there again, one suspects nerves). Her question -- "Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"--gave me chills...
...late George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart would scarcely have dreamed that a scene like this could form the tender touchstone of their 29-year-old farce-comedy, but Director Ellis Rabb and his gifted APA company have had the wit to see that two people falling honestly in love on a modern stage is a total surprise. They have further grasped that the '30s can be nostalgically re-created as a golden age of moneyless innocence, and that in an era of black comedy, human comedy has vastly appealing warmth...
...second act is peopled by refugees from The Threepenny Opera, both as characters and actors. Peter Johnson and Susan Channing sneer at each other across two inches of mutual nose. Leland Moss stalks and glowers while Vernon Blackman, as the smallest and most industrious of the Cockney quartet, loots the tambourine. Erhardt's direction keeps things moving although the first two acts seem hampered by the shallow sets, forcing all movement into one plane...
...Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill to make Columbus Day a national legal holiday...
...have two poles-a red one and a white one-to signal each other," said the junior Indian officer. But we didn't get to see them: as we approached, all the Chinese had fallen into prone positions behind the rocks, disappearing against the green grass and mottled moss. "You never can tell what the Chinkos will do," said the senior Indian officer with a smile. "But our boys come up to have a good look at them now and then just to show there's no ill feeling...