Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about ten inmutes in the second act, a fine musical version of Juno and the Paycock is currently on view at the Shubert. These ten minutes show a backyard party, conducted to the tune of a cheerfully cheesy waltz, suddenly interrupted by the entrance of a woman on the way to the funeral of her son, who had been killed fighting for the Irish Republic. Most of the party, suddenly chastened, troop out as mourners, and the man who had been forced to inform on the dead soldier tries to relieve his feelings in a desperately gay dance...
Nothing will convince me that democracy has at last arrived on the Cuban scene. Fidel Castro and his entourage of pinko opportunists are only adding another act to the Cuban tragedy. Batista and Prio were not much as practitioners of freedom, but I'm sure most Cubans and Americans were shocked to hear dictatorese spout from the hirsute hermit so soon...
Staged by Michael Murray, the production has clarity and pace and a disarming respect for O'Casey. Yet the actors, particularly John Heffernan in the role of the poet, seem more eager to present a "compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment...
...Acting contrary to its original plans, and obeying instructions of the Office of Civil and Defense mobilization, the Army Corps of Engineers has accepted a bid of $1,757,000 from a Philadelphia company and has rejected an English Electric Company bid that was $300,000 lower. In doing this, it was allegedly acting under the "Buy America Act," which provides for the rejection of foreign contracts in cases of national security...
...recent years the Act has become a protective devise for avoiding the liberal trade policies so hotly championed by the Administration. The Act provides that to require acceptance a foreign bid must be at least six per cent lower than a domestic one, and to this is added another six per cent in the case of unemployed areas. The English bid, however, even after import duty, was 19 per cent lower...