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...entire cast of "Figaro!" has approached the play in the buoyant spirit of farce comedy. Jerome Kohn and Ailene Pressman, in the roles of Count Almaviva and Susanne, give animated, completely enjoyable performances. John Kerr, as the hero, Figaro, is far too subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...
...Promise You. Meanwhile Jimmy Roosevelt was looking more & more like a pretty shrewd politico. Up & down the San Joaquin Valley he was drawing crowds to the back platform of his shiny new trailer-bus. For his campaign manager Jimmy badly wanted George T. Davis, a smart San Francisco lawyer who had run the California Truman-Barkley clubs. Davis wanted to be sure that it was all right with Harry Truman at Key West. After sounding out the Administration's boys in the back room, Davis came back with a demand from the Truman advisers that Jimmy promise in writing...
...started as a worker in a malt house in 1921 and reached the top four years ago when his older brother, Adolphus, the company president, died of cancer. A barrel-chested World War II colonel, "Gussie" Busch, now 51, is a throwback to Grandfather Adolphus. He has a shrewd eye for horses, a nose that can sniff the quality of hops, and he likes nothing better than the periodic Schlachtfeste at which the family, clad in Bavarian costumes, consumes quantities of sausages, pork cuts and ribs washed down with Budweiser...
...California. Shrewd General Ashley, "the John Jacob Astor of St. Louis," thought he knew a good man when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests...
Perkins was ready to send his writers long letters with shrewd and specific suggestions for improving their manuscripts, but he realized that a main function was to prop their drooping egos while they worked. To Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous...