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...Cantor's interpretation of Ibsen's two-act drama emphasizes the playwright's humor, lightening up a script that tends toward the didactic. The Pillars of Society concerns one seemingly model family whose patriarch must admit to his actual deceit when the family's "black sheep" return home to clear their own names. The title refers to this false moral leader. Karsten Bernick, and his business cohorts, who pursue personal profits under the banner of working for the common good. They are supported by their equally hypocritical wives, members of an aid society for fallen women who are more dedicated...
Ibsen attacks this Janus-faced samaritanism and also takes on the dilemmas of pride versus resignation, of profit and progress versus human interest. If played straight, this show could be rather sanctimonious. The speeches about lives based on lies are heavy handed even in Cantor's production, but the superb cast and quick pace play up Pillars farcical aspects. Props such as loud ties, when sacal scenery and an office suspended in mid air, beguile the audience...
...text, that stellar acting is the only solution. With impressive consistency, the humorous touches thrown into this updated version keep the 1935 play entertaining. Brian McCue's series of comic scenes seem to emerge directly from Auden's own witty and slightly bizarre sense of humor. And Max Cantor shines as the ridiculous subjectivist poet who tells Alan Norman that all objects exist only in the poet's mind: "If I shut my eyes they all disappear." The poet's theory is broken when the dog bites his hand, a simple, timely metaphor for the coming world...
Some plays are not made for New York, and On Golden Pond is one of them. "It's a lovely heartland play," says Arthur Cantor, one of the original producers. "West of Westchester, it apparently can't miss." Despite its failure on Broadway, it has become a favorite on the regional and summer-stock circuit. The original backers' investment of $240,000 was paid off last August; an average of $25,000 in royalties still comes in to the author every month from performances all over the world; and Cantor expects at least 10,000 amateur productions...
...University relocated the Medical Area office "to give the best possible and most cost effective personnel service throughout the University," a February memo from Cantor states...