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...were not quite so successful. Tony Corbett's Octavius, the heart-broken poet scorned by Ann, is quite weak enough to deserve's Ann's cruel "Ricky-ticky-tavy" nick-name, but hardly deep enough to evoke sympathy. Timothy Mayer's Stryker, the auto mechanic and supposedly the New Man, and Mark Bramhall's Hector, Violet's secret husband, are spoiled by their accents. Mayer is sometimes hard to understand and Bramhall sounds more like a simpleton than the Jack Kennedy he apparently was immitating. Both, however, have enough sense of timing to draw their laughs well...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: `Man and Superman' at the Loeb | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Seltzer's talent for fabricating first-rate supporting actors out of his own radiance, and left the show entirely to him. For it is clearly Falstaff's huge effrontery, his assurance that his weight and wit make him the incandescent center of his cronies which keeps Peto (Tony Corbett), Bardolph (John Anderson), and Mistress Quickly (Raye Bush) steadily alive. That radiance has happily restrained most--if not enough--of those extremely traditional and extremely irritating ceaseless palsies, grunts, and hysterics which directors of Shakespeare persist in preserving in all the comic scenes...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Henry IV, Part One | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Playing before a large home crowd in Potsdam N.Y., the Black Knights scored their first tally at 8:32 of the penalty filled first period, on a shot off the face-off by forward Corbett Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Beaten Twice By New York Schools | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

Just when it looked as though the Crimson had sewn up the period, Corbett Adams of Clarkson took a long bouncing shot from the center red line. What looked like a routine save turned into a surprising miss, as the puck hopped over Bland's stick and between his pads for the tying goal...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Clarkson Hockey Sextet Overpowers Varsit, 5-3 | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...Ceglarski, in his fourth year as hockey coach at Clarkson, has fifteen returning lettermen and three sophomore forwards, Brian Wilkinson, Corbett Adams, and Roger Purdie. They form a line which has produced an average of three goals a game this year...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Powerful Clarkson Squad Meets First-Ranked Crimson at Watson | 12/7/1961 | See Source »

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