Word: bertrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some elements in Sklar's play transcend the form. His composite town of Leucadia presents a number of convincing Southern characters including a chilling deputy sheriff (perfectly portrayed by Roger W. Loomis) and a hopelessly lost, despicable belle (also well acted, by Susan Bertram...
...forced integration came last week in Albany. By a 41-to-19 vote, the New York state senate approved a bill that in effect sought to ban bussing. Supporters of the bill called the vote a victory for the "neighborhood school concept." But Brooklyn's Negro Assemblyman Bertram Baker, chairman of the Education Committee, who bottled up a similar bill previously, pronounced that the senate version "does not have a ghost of a chance" of getting to the assembly floor for a vote...
...Massachusetts-born Robert Preston guides a tour through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan in this series of specials on regions of the U.S. Some of the scheduled participants: Jazzman Dave Brubeck, Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi, Repertory Theater Head Tyrone Guthrie and Architect Bertram Goldberg...
...Chumley's Bertram, on the other hand, is a puzzlement. Thoughtless and rash Bertram may be, but it is difficult to see how he can be the whining child that Chumley would have him in the first two acts. And when he reappears later on, sporting a silky little mustache, he displays a bluff heartiness that keeps ringing false. We are not prepared for Bertram's last petulant falsehoods and final acceptance of Helen in the last act simply because we do not get a real sense of his growing maturity...
...similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product of growth than of failure to choose one consistent interpretation of the role...