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Cranks (by John Cranko; music by John Addison) is a pint-sized English revue with a Jeroboam's worth of frills. Three men and a girl squeal or kneel or sit with their backs to the audience, climb things while they rhyme things, weave about or dance or contort while singing ballads or blues. In a welter of shifting lights, one revue number slithers into the next while the performers act as their own stagehands...
...Neill's riven and tormented family has the imperious thrust of unblushing theater mated to unsoftened truth. It also achieves the illumination born of compulsive groping, prodding and clawing in dark places. In it O'Neill has managed to apply a famous phrase of Addison's-to ride in the whirlwind yet direct the storm...
...time was the traveling "Sport in Art" show (sponsored by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and the American Federation of Arts), which is due to open in Dallas this month, eventually wind up in Australia for the Olympics, under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency. The four pictures in dispute: the Addison Gallery of American Art's Skaters by the late Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Cleveland Museum of Art's The Park, Winter, by Leon Kroll, 71; Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's Fishermen by William Zorach, 69; and National Pastime, by Ben Shahn...
...theater" with "opera," brings new energy to the stage, and the principles well fulfill Mr. Goldovsky's goal by adding acting ability to singing talent. Kenneth Smith is dashing and powerful at the Don, who is humorously charming, clear voices, particularly the coquettish Joan Noynagh (Zerlina) and Adele Addison (Donna Anna...
...Hale's words were inspired by a line from one of his favorite plays, Joseph Addison's Cato. The line: "What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country!" Another line from the same play-"Chains, or conquest; liberty, or death"-is believed to be the source of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death...