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...show goes into rehearsal October 30 under the direction of William Penn, who is slated to direct "Time is a Thief" on Broadway next spring. The names of the leading performers and the theatre will be disclosed next week...
...Though there has never been a home run king like The Natural's Outfielder Roy Hobbs, his tragicomic baseball adventures seem as authentic as Mantle and Maris. Though The Assistant's lyrical delicatessen world cannot be found anywhere in Brooklyn, the painful journey toward redemption of ex-Thief Frank Alpine rings universally true. In contrast, A New Life is written primarily in realistic terms, and in those terms it often fails. Cascadia State is obviously a rendering of Oregon State, where Brooklyn-born Author Malamud spent twelve years as a professor of English, and he has remembered perhaps...
Dedicated last week was a new chapel that was designed by a professional forger, decorated by a two-man team composed of a thief and a murderer, and built by laborers on a wage scale that ranged from $1.20 to $7.70 a month. Its 1,000-odd congregation: inmates of the District of Columbia Reformatory (for men) at Lorton...
...Enchanted Wanderer, is the skaz at its purest, with a framework of auditors who listen to the story and occasionally interrupt with provocative questions. It is a picaresque short novel, narrated by its hero, who was born a serf, trained as an outrider, and who became in turn a thief, a Tartar captive and husband of Tartar wives, a soldier, a horse dealer, a civil servant, an actor and a novice in a monastery-always resigned to his fate, yet full of curiosity and humor, always interested in the experience of being a Russian in gigantic and diverse Mother Russia...
Tall and blond, he did not look much like Cary Grant but as a thief, his record was more impressive; police claimed Sacha was the leader of a gang of jewel thieves that have lifted several million from the mansions and hotels of France, Belgium and Germany since 1953. Said an exuberant Riviera police chief, hoping some of the month's robberies could be traced to le beau Sacha: "We have trapped a very big bird, undoubtedly the most important in the last 30 years...