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...race. He had pored over his form charts like any careful bettor, studied past performances, and decided that Nashua needed every ounce of 132 Ibs. to bring him back to the field. He doled out his weights so carefully that even with the "big horse" gone, the chalk players had a pretty problem...
...seems that The Chalk Garden, currently playing at the Boston Summer Theatre, "unites the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, on a stage for the first time in half a century." As one who wasn't around 50 years ago, and who until the other night had never seen either of the Gishes perform, I can't be too impressed by this theatrical precedent. I can report, however, that the Misses Lillian and Dorothy are both fine actresses, and that they make The Chalk Garden a sparkling, engaging play...
Thus there is Miss Madrigal, the newly-hired "companion" in the house on a chalk cliff, who acts very mysterious and displays a frighteningly detailed knowledge of gardening. Her quirks are perfectly accounted for in the last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined. Laurel, the 13-year-old girl in the house, is impetuous, over-self-conscious, and neurotic in just the way one would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies...
...having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening prattle that has gone before. I could accept the fact that raising a garden on chalk soil symbolized overcoming the obstacles of life, but any more detailed meaning seemed just too heavy for the dramatic structure to bear...
CAPITAL TRANSIT CO., Washington's oft-troubled transportation system, which Financier Louis Wolfson milked of millions (TIME, June 25), will finally be sold. For $13.5 million, syndicate headed by Manhattan Real Estateman O. Roy Chalk has agreed to buy bus and streetcar line, is expected to take over next month when current franchise runs out. Originally, Chicago's National City Lines planned to buy, but later withdrew...