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...hero (Paul Newman) is a raucous young crown prince of the cue who challenges the king (Jackie Gleason) to do battle for his throne. For 36 hours without intermission, they have at each other: now hacking fiercely at the glistening balls, now waving their cues exquisitely, like pallid wands, as the balls disappear, and always drinking, drinking, drinking as they play. Hour by hour, rack by rack, the young challenger draws steadily ahead, grows steadily more arrogant. After 25 hours, playing for $1,000 a game, he is $18,000 in the green. "It's my table!" he crows...
...singers' ability to negotiate Schonberg's dissonances and steep intervals with a familiarity that made the composer seem almost as accessible as the Gemutlichkeitladen German romantics. Sinewy and biting, the music called for an unerring sense of rhythm and pitch, and the Gregg Smith Singers responded on cue like a well-oiled machine. Conductor Smith had arranged his twelve male and 13 female singers cannily, spreading them across the entire width of the stage in an arc that gave breadth and transparency to the group sound. It was, said a delighted local critic, "perhaps the first thoroughly enjoyable...
...radio cue prompter," consisting of a radio transmitter and receiver (each the size of two cigarette packs), designed especially for efficient partnership card play. With this transmitter strapped to his leg, a gambler can send undetected a coded series of electric impulses, guide his partner on the betting...
...TELL (New Glaurus, Wis.), an import from Europe, is a lavish adaptation of Schiller's play particularly popular with Wisconsin's Swiss-Americans. At the climax, the Swiss hero draws his bow with fervor, shoots the apple from his son's head (the boy nods on cue, the apple falls, he leans over and picks up another one hidden in the grass with a shill arrow in it). In the audience, half the town roars with pride-the other half is in the play...
...brother Oliver wears riding habit, carries cigars, and flourishes a cigarette lighter. The usurping Duke Frederick is decked out entirely in white, except for a diplomat's baldric-like red sash, and, with his beard, is a double for Peter Ustinov. For him Baker has invented (taking a cue from Violenta in All's Well?) a silent female companion who slinks about in a black gown and ling cigarette-holder, a refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes...