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...doesn't quite escape the trap of a slow beginning, but after the three girls perform their fable play within a play, the rest is pure velvet. Bro Uttal plays the part of Gideon, sophisticated man of the world, just returned from Oxford to talk with his former pedagogue. It seems to be one of those who-am-I jobs, despite the promising dialogue, until the scholar provides him with entertainment, a fantasy play in which three girls (Libby Frank, Mary Moss, and Jane Bullock) play the parts of a king, queen, and princess on an island of three inhabitants...
...With the exception of Mark Liberman as Charles, the pedagogue, the cast plays its multiple parts (the lovers are the same royal family) with balance and professional instinct. I don't know whether Charles was intended to be played as he was but the effect was nevertheless unfortunate. Bro Uttal was thoroughly convincing in a demanding role and it would be impossible to say which of the girls was best. Not only did they make the fantasy the high point of the play, they also switched easily into the lovers' roles, and some minor characters besides. Mary Moss...
...change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew Lane in London's City. Precisely at 11:47 a.m., he marches into the stock exchange and, while bro kers crowd around him, announces the bank rate - the price of money...
...high price and figuring to repay it at a lower price. But after Dec. 3, the first date on which investors could take capital gains, the price went higher in stead of lower, forcing short sellers to scramble to cover their losses and sending the stock even higher. Many bro kers, fearing that Comsat could be riding for a fall, got on the telephones last week to warn their customers away...
...Great Deterrent. Trikilis' system is not a perfect burglar finder, and it cannot foil the determined thief who tosses a stolen book out a window. But drawbacks are few, and along with a similar setup made by Bro-Dart Industries of Newark, N.J., the Sentronic sentry is being studied by libraries across the U.S., from the Harvard University Medical School library to San Quentin prison library...