Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Departing, after a theatrical year that rather resembles a turkey trot, Kronenberger is content, at 56, to recall more enchanted evenings from the past. Among them: The Little Foxes, The Chalk Garden, Tiger at the Gates, Don Juan in Hell, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Misanthrope. Says he: "The idea that reviewers love bad shows so they can be very clever is the reverse of the truth. If you like a play, your praise carries the reader with you. If you don't like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful...
Enter now the Providence police. In an attempt to enforce strictly the city's parking ordinances, officers cruise around on motorcycles during the day, marking the wheels of the parked cars with chalk. If the mark has not disappeared when the policeman returns in two hours, the student receives a blue ticket and a $3 over-parking fine...
Just as diligent as the police department, howver, is the chalkorasing brigade, made up of commuters and sympathetic resident students, which is duty bound to erase a chalk mark on the wheel of any car in the Brown neighborhood. What perhaps started out as a game, has now become a source of constant friction...
...questions, however, whether people can be found to staff a large production. "Harvard and Radcliffe people deserted their roles in Caucasian Chalk Circle. They won't do costumes, and won't play small roles. There have been cases where students would rather go to cocktail parties...
Aaron also offered unsolicited advice. He was ejected from rehearsals of Caucasian Chalk Circle several times, once forcibly