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Theatre of the Piccoli (produced by Cheryl Crawford) is-mechanically speaking-the world's greatest marionette show. Last seen on Broadway in 1934, Vittorio Podrecca's marionettes returned last week to demonstrate once more an art whose masters require 20 years of apprenticeship. No suitcase theatre, but a vast marionet-work involving three miles of string, over 800 wooden performers and 20-odd flesh-&-blood puppeteers, the Piccoli offers a bill as long and elaborate as a Broadway revue...
...feminine lead in Bethel Merriday is an earnest small girl from a middle-class New England household who takes college theatrics seriously, gets her pa to shell out $425 for ten weeks of apprenticeship at an arty summer theatre. The old Lewis ear for idiom goes to work on airy Director Roscoe Valentine ("So beautifully fallible!"); the old Lewis Saturday Evening Post touch appears in godlike, athletic Andy Deacon, Yale and Newport, amateur actor and angel to the company. Bethel Merriday learns the talk, the tricks, the hard-working realities of acting. She would agree with her creator that...
...machine-tool plants last week rubber-tired food wagons glided. Whenever it pleased them, overalled machinists, black-lipped and pasty-faced under the flourescent green lights, stopped their work for between-meal snacks of milk, sandwiches, crullers, pie. Yankee toolmakers are brought up through a long apprenticeship to have a religious reverence for millionths of an inch, but food is a necessity, for precision suffers when a worker's stomach begins to twinge...
...moved across town to a new factory under a single roof. N-B-P, which operates the Pratt & Whitney* tool works, last week had a backlog of $8,700,000, up 400% from last year. Its bulky president, 65-year-old Clayton Raymond Burt, who served his toolmaking apprenticeship with big Brown & Sharpe back in the early 19005, like the rest of the industry found his plant unable to keep up with his orders. The company's backlog was still growing, and tough...
Among these he mentioned the "difficulty of defining standards to be attained in the several subjects of the academic program: the difficulty of conducting adequate apprenticeship for practice in teaching; and the difficulty of testing achievement instead of accepting credits in courses...