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Agreed: the hero, Captain Bluntschli, does load his revolver with chocolates and does flee the battlefield when the Bulgarian army mounts a charge, but this is not comedy, this is the natural response of a reasoning man to the horrors of war. How opposed to the flatulent conceits of the Bulgarians, for whom heroism is embodied by bewhiskered Sergei Saranoff leading the harebrained charge, and for whom "higher love" is typified by the couple that coos and clutches effusively. Yet in spite of the laughter still echoing in the theater--for this is a funny play--Bluntschli wins out soberly...
...machine gun. Clark plays the chocolate cream soldier competently if monotonously, as a debonair impostor. He is forever raising his eyebrows to convince the audience of his nonchalance, and if he really had to incorporate the cigarette as a prop, he might have learned to inhale the harsh Bulgarian blend. The director fails in this production to show that the decisions Bluntschli makes are sincere responses to real crises--the love affair here has been reduced to a flirtation and the specter of war that is supposed to haunt the play has been revamped as a slap-stick--yet Clark...
Arms and the Man. Shaw hits the Mainstage again, in one of his classic intellectual comedies about a Bulgarian nobleman who writes an operetta called The Chocolate Soldier because he loads his revolver with chocolate. Shaw outraged public opinion with this play by revealing that Bulgarians of high social position did not bathe. The director is the very accomplished Evangline Morphos, but the Mainstage's penchant for competent, unexciting productions of good but not great plays will probably not be reversed. Tonight through Sunday at 8 p.m. as well as next week...
...sites would deprive America of its antisubmarine warfare base and Sixth Fleet resupply facilities at Crete's Suda Bay (described by one U.S. officer as "one of the best natural harbors in the world"). It would also mean giving up bases on Crete and near the Bulgarian border, where tactical nuclear warheads are stockpiled...
...good-natured disasters-banishment, war, scourging, mass slaughter, piracy, the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, concubinage-until at last the wanderers come to El Dorado. Leading pink sheep laden with glimmering ingots, Candide and Cunegonde arrive with their innocence reasonably intact, although such setbacks as her rape by a regiment of Bulgarian soldiers have left Cunegonde with a somewhat supple interpretation of purity...