Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Lange, on the other hand, who directed the second play, Where the Cross is Made, shows considerable adroitness with effects--the weird lighting turns out very well--but less control of his actors. Michael Medearis plays the nearly mad son of a mad sea captain with melodrama in every syllable. This sometimes comes off. John Baker, as his father, teeters between vivid strength and hamminess, but Barbara Bisco, as the captain's daughter, enters her role with fine if sometimes sudden emotion...
...sets for Cross and Voyage are adequate; for Rope, excellent. As a whole, Leverett provides a surprisingly positive evening. Two mediocre playlets lead up to one genuinely impressive play...
...Throughout the long hours of technical testimony, the clouds of doubt were continuously marshaled by the skilled cross-examination of another kind of expert: Defense Attorney Geoffrey Lawrence, Q.C. A puckish, mousy little man with a mind as orderly as a calculating machine. Barrister Lawrence, specialist in real estate and divorce cases, was a relative stranger in criminal court. In his curled white wig and black silk robe, he lacked entirely the stage color of the traditional defense lawyer; yet almost apologetically he managed to leave witness after witness floundering in confusion...
...less merciless with lay testimony, trapping prosecution witnesses (including two nurses) in the bog holes of their own faulty memories. When, at last, the exhausted prosecution rested, Lawrence called only two witnesses to bolster his own case. The frustrated Attorney General was not even given the chance of cross-examining the defendant. Confident that he had the case won, the defense counsel decided not to put his client on the stand...
...first singles, Dale Junta, although bothered somewhat by the strong cross-wind which whistled over the courts all afternoon, defeated Tony Ellison, 6-3, 6-3. At second singles, Gottlieb topped George Huft, 7-5, 6-1, and Larry Sears turned in his most impressive victory of the home season as he swept past Army's third man, Bill Bailey...