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...Hammond divided his subjects aged 40 to 60 into groups, separating them according to 24 such factors. He discovered that it made virtually no difference whether the men were short or tall, black or white, native or foreign-born, married or single, gluttons for fried food or abstainers, bald or shockheaded, circumcised or not. The death rate ran consistently about twice as high among heavy smokers (a pack a day or more) as among nonsmokers...
Since Stanislavsky wrote My Life in Art, all sorts of do-or-Dionysians from Tyrone Guthrie to Moss Hart have felt compelled to follow suit. The results are seldom so immortal. Last week George Abbott, the tall, tough and still active bald eagle of Broadway, published Mister Abbott, an account of his own life-all 76 years of it. Since he has been director, producer, writer, actor or plastic surgeon for 103 Broadway shows of all types except the intellectual-Twentieth Century, Room Service, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows...
...looks like a casting director's choice for the job-plump, bald, ruddy, even a little belligerent. At 70, age has not withered his stern skills nor staled his colorful style. But now, after 23 years on the bench, New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Simon Leibowitz finds himself before the bar as a defendant, his very qualifications to serve the law subject to review by a panel of his peers...
Price incidentally plays the lead in the other piece on the same Theatre Company program, The Dock Brief, by John Mortimer. In comparison with the bite of The Bald Soprano, the whimsy of The Dock Brief is so vapid that it is tolerable only because it begins the evening. Little is news in The Dock Brief except perhaps the performances of the actors, Price and Edward Finnegan, which create imaginary or past worlds off the stage far more interesting than...
...evening of contemporary theatre in the little Hotel Bostonian Playhouse can be doubly sour if the acid of The Bald Soprano dissolves the sugar of The Dock Brief. Or it can be doubly rewarding. But there is no easy metaphor to explain how, so you will have to see it yourself...