Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris does not intend to request another chance to testify before the court. Says he: "I've had my say and I'll let it stand. The old image has been bruised a bit in the press this past week or so. But the people who really count know the truth and they're going to weigh what they heard in court...
Penn has also beaten Navy by an 8-1 count. "Harvard will win the first two matches," Navy coach Art Potter predicted yesterday, "but after that, I rate it as a tossup...
...Rehearsal takes place at a chateau in modern France, whose owner is staging an amateur production of an eighteenth century melodrama, Marivaux's The Double Inconstancy. The Count insists that his fellow players--including his wife, his mistress, his wife's lover--wear their period costumes during the three-day rehearsal period so that they can grow into their roles. The result is something like an interminable cast party hosted by Stanislavsky...
...Count, a master of type-casting, assigns roles to his guests that exactly parallel their actual intrigues. In no time at all, life is imitating art and vice versa. The Countess, in her Louis Quatorze gown, puffs Turkish cigarettes and wears oversize sunglasses. The mistress alternates between her catty conspiracies and her overplayed acting--in the process, making great fun out of lines like, "La! There's village drollery...
...Count's living theatre works just fine until the inevitable ingenue (Ellen Endicott-Jones) upsets all the artificial relationships. Anouilh never has time to exploit The Rehearsal's central conceit for he soon finds himself struggling to protect his ingenue from the cynics that surround her. Hero, the Count's alcoholic friend, takes over and the play sloshes forward lugubriously. Humbert Allen Astredo delineates his drunkenness with sensitivity, but there's just so much Anouilh packed into his long monologues, that he can't help but become tiresome...