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Good Time Charley. I suppose it was only a matter of time. The idea was obvious, the time so ripe, that my only question is, "what took so long?" A musical about Joan of Arc. It only took the Church 500 years to canonize her. Better late than never, is one tempted to explain? It won't do. Reports have it that this charcoal-broiled musical may be the worst even Boston has seen in recent years. What can you sing about a 21 year-old peasant girl who died? Joel Grey, fresh from a White House appearance doing...
...horse that replaced a print of a suffering Christ, enjoy the same status as, say, the murder weapon in a Perry Mason. Peter Firth (Strang) and Anthony Hopkins (Dysart) put more passion and energy into their roles than you can find in half a dozen revivals of "Where's Charley?" Hopkins (who played Pierre Bezoukhov in the BBC War and Peace) spits his words into the air with tortured eloquence. Firth bounds from the catatonic to the hyperactive with incredible energy, as convincing as an insouciant teenager humming Doublemint jingles or a demented superman on a frenzied ride to masturbatory...
...history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then there is Mike Marshall, the Dodger relief pitcher and winner of the Cy Young Award. He retreats to Michigan State every winter to work on his Ph.D. in motor development in children (TIME, Aug. 12). Denver Bronco Quarterback Charley Johnson has a 1971 doctorate in chemical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Johnson, who specialized in the expansion characteristics of plastics, works in the offseason as an engineer and salesman for a firm that builds natural gas compressing stations...
Died. Cliff Arquette, 68, creative comedian whose squashed hat, spectacles and baggy pants identified him to TV viewers as the wisecracking bumpkin, Charley Weaver; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Arquette began carving the character of Charley during the heyday of radio, when he played the "Old-timer" on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1957, Charley became a regular on the Jack Paar show, where he shared with the world letters written to him by his mother from mythical Mount Idy, Ohio...
Also good are Kenneth Levy as Uncle Charley and Robert Dean as his son Bernard, both of whom have learned to accept the pedestrian nature of their lives. The director would have done well to tone down the simpish qualities of Bernard as a child--the play is clear enough on that point without the necessity of aping it. Carla Dragoni is very good as Willy's one-time lover. She is willing to take some chances in bringing the character alive, and the gamble pays...