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...have only two reservations to make. In the middle of the play, the directors have Jack Bittner, portraying Time, rise out of the ground wearing a 1958 suit and carrying a wet umbrella over his head. They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
...member of Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre troupe) speaks clearly, but he makes the Duke of Venice far too young. The Duke has a marriageable daughter; and, in Bell's conception, his daughter could not be out of elementary school yet. Larry Gates, Kendall Clark, John Colicos and Jack Bittner are commendable in their supporting roles. In fact, one of the virtues of this company is that everyone has good diction; there are no harsh vowels or dropped consonants...
Died. Van Amberg Bittner, 64, vice president of C.I.O and the United Steel-ivorkers; of a heart ailment; in Pittsburgh. One of C.I.O.'s ace organizers (he directed the postwar "Operation Dixie" to organize Southern labor), Bittner was president of a Mine Workers' local at 16, Pitched his wagon to the John L. Lewis star, but chose to stay as Phil Murray's lieutenant in the Steelworkers when Lewis' Mine Workers broke with C.I.O...
Last week some of the A-plus results came out in book form (Renoir Drawings, Bittner; $15). Renoir's freshman efforts were a touch too perfect-for a while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved...
Other skirmishes loomed around workers in the South's leading cotton mills. Van Bittner, bulky chief of C.I.O. organizers, summoned a council of war next week at Columbia, S.C. to map regional strategy. "The cotton textile industry offers the widest field," said Bittner, naming North Carolina's Cannon towel mills and Georgia's Bibb Manufacturing Co. as redoubts to be taken...