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...comedy built around the unlikely subject of a spastic child who, as the focus of her parents' attention, holds their marriage together. Peter Nichols' play is performed by the new Madison Civic Repertory, Madison, Wis., on several dates between July...
...civic gathering: "Ladies and gentlemen of the League of Women Voters...
GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Lakewood Civic Auditorium, Lakewood, Ohio. Here a more traditional As You Like It features Maria Lennard, formerly of the Bristol Old Vic company, as Rosalind (July 9-15); Macbeth and his extremely active wife are played by Britishers Stephen Scott and Maureen Harley (July 17-27); and Troilus and Cressida stars Scott as Hector (Aug. 14-Sept. 11). A Shavian touch is added by Candida with Celeste Holm and Wesley Addy (July...
...corner drugstore and the county courthouse. Overall, one involved Nevadan opines, there are 30 to 40 brothels, with seven to ten girls apiece, in the 15 permissive counties. The opulence (or lack of it) of these industries, and the beauty and skill of the inhabitants, are grounds for civic pride (or concern). One year, the town fathers of Wells noted that visitors seemed to be having trouble locating the red-light district, so they helpfully installed directional signs. When reactionary residents of one town kicked up a fuss because a house of ill repute was operating next door...
Politically as well as culturally, Minneapolis is one of the Midwest's more progressive cities. Its civic-minded businessmen like their suits conservative and their politics enlightened. Since the 1940s, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition has produced a series of dynamic liberal mayors, including Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent, Arthur Naftalin. Thus Minneapolis seemed unlikely to succumb to the mayoral campaign of a political novice whose principal pledge was "to take the handcuffs off the police." Yet that is just what happened last week...