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...Wesley Zeigler's direction is often contrived. Most of his characters, when they deliver long speeches, pace up and down the stage, following practically the same pattern. And the play is considerably dulled by Ziegler's fascination with the fjords (which look very much like the Swiss Alps.) In the first act, an audience sitting out behind the set would hear almost as much of the important dialogue as the group in the Lowell Dining Room...
Last Monday's opening of Tosca fitted all too well into this pattern of steady, but Grade B, musical performances. Yet, it was not a bad job nor a purely indifferent offering. The main problem was one of casting. Tosca and Cavaradossi must be sophisticates; they are people of passionate conviction, important in the world of fashion and art. As portrayed by Lois Marshall and Thomas Hayward, the lovers seemed like the uncertain adolescents of Blue Denim. They sang well, though the round, supple tone of Miss Marshall is well known and pleasing, as is the light, lyric vocalism...
Anew book by Eric Hodgins, author of the Blandings novels, is an event. Doubly so when it is illustrated by the deft hand of Cartoonist Alan Dunn. This week Doubleday & Company brings out their combined work: Enough Time? The Pattern of Executive Life ($2.50), published in cooperation with TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. On this page...
...pattern was becoming too clear: a nibble here, a nibble there-with occasional blandishments to confuse and perhaps mollify the Indians...
Stressing the failure of the present rules "to fulfill the social-emotional needs of a weekend oriented dating pattern," the report itemizes statistics showing that only 5.5 per cent of polled under graduates use the afternoon hours more than three times a week...