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...hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden. All the same, after a 21-year absence from Broadway, a play boasting so many good things, in a production with such good things, is well worth a visit...
...Georgian Grace, but the residents of Quincy House look proudly out of their fish-bowl refectory or patter happily about their duplex suits. The elevators have failed occasionally; so far there is no way to get water in the dining room; some ceilings are not completed; and the courtyard is still unreclaimed desert. But the Quincy organism is alive and functioning...
Again the Chorus. When at last the driver of the ZIS fought his way through to Myslewicki Palace, where the Nixons were to stay, nearby windows and balconies were jammed, and at least a thousand members of the crowd managed to shove their way into the courtyard. And as Dick and Pat Nixon stood on the steps waving, the roaring chorus rose again: "Bravo, Americans...
...longtime (1918-41) Sing Sing Prison guard and principal keeper (1926-41), who ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...
...cutest students at California's Mills College, winsome Amy Hsiao-chang Chiang, 21, turned out with classmates and faculty members for a picnic lunch in a dormitory courtyard, giggled at a series of skits staged by freshman girls. Sophomore Amy, who transferred to the all-woman school this term from Formosa's University of Soochow, is the granddaughter of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the daughter of. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. She has thus far not dated any U.S. swains but is frequently escorted by her brother Alan, a University of California freshman...