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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, adapted faithfully but rather ponderously from the short story by Carson McCullers, finds Playwright Edward Albee in middling-to-poor form. However, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and a remarkable actor-dwarf, Michael Dunn, give the evening moments of phantasmagorical vitality...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFÉ, adapted faithfully but rather ponderously from the short story by Carson McCullers, finds Playwright Edward Albee in middling-to-poor form. However, Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and a remarkable actor-dwarf, Michael Dunn, give the evening scattered moments of phantasmagorical vitality...
...than 100 theater parties that are already committed to go to this threnody. Whether she is nostalgically sashaying through a cane-and-straw-hat routine, or spinning head over heels on a giant Roto-Broil of a torture wheel, or running her voice like a caress over a romantic ballad, she has the star quality that transcends marquees and animates legends. In her bearing, timing, suppleness, versatility, she is a flawless professional. Her only wrong move in Jennie is being in Jennie...
There he would be greeted with royal flattery by a bearded eminence whose own genius was that he was perfectly suited to his job and his times. Fields was a first-rate business man, a fourth-rate poet and a tenth-rate moralist. One of his poems, "The Ballad of the Tempest," is worth quoting: "We are lost!"-the Captain shouted, As he staggered down the stairs...
...reasonable hour when concentrators in the Humanities arise and CRIMSON editors stagger to bed, the offerings grow luxuriant. Professor Lord will give special attention to ritual songs, myth, ballad, and folktale in Comp. Lit. 110, "Introduction to Folklore." And while Chem. 20 hurtles onward, Chinese 30, open to freshmen, will cover the more important texts in Chinese thought...