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...philosophical bonds with doctors. I don't like the word 'compulsory.' I am against the word 'socialized.' " He was sure that the Government could do more for the national health if it cooperated with the doctors instead of trying "to be the big Pooh-Bah in this particular field...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis is a Greek-born Argentine who water-skis in the best international circles and includes among his friends Prince Rainier III, Pooh-Bah of the tiny principality of Monaco and its famed Monte Carlo Casino. At 47, Onassis has homes in Paris, New York, Montevideo and Antibes, owns or controls a fleet of 91 tankers, freighters and whaling ships worth an estimated $300 million, and has a pretty 23-year-old wife. But he didn't get all this by breaking the bank at Monte Carlo-quite the opposite. Last week "Ari" Onassis...
Green is backed by a fine company, Robert Eccles plays the proud Pooh-Bah with corpulent pomposity, elegantly waving a fan the size of a Venetian blind. A suitably menacing Mikado, Joseph Macaulay, handles Gilbert's lyrics deftly as he gloats of his plan "to make the punishment fit the crime...
Senior Class reunion? Eliot House Courtyard? Bah," he heard himself saying. "Probably just a bunch of dried-up speeches...
...most marked change from the traditional Mikado--besides the increased importance of the onstage chorus--is the rather unusual interpretation of two of the principals, Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah. Ko-Ko is, and always has been, a shy, introverted fellow, but Allan Miller a bit overdoes his meekness, with the result that we miss the slight hamming which ordinarily characterizes the Lord High Executioner. Barry Pennington's Pooh-Bah, however, is also a dead-pan job, but is so superbly done that it at times steals the stage from...