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Henry IV, Part I is the richest of Shakespeare's chronicle plays, partly for the fire and dash of its impetuous Hotspur, pre-eminently for the titanic verve of its waddling Falstaff. Between the two of them - the one filled with chivalric ideals of honor, the other cynically dismissing honor as mere "air" - stand all manner of men, and of human ambitions and failings and faiths. About equally between them, at the center of the play, stands a youthful Prince Hal, who must grow from being a thoughtless playboy and Falstaff's roistering playfellow into Hotspur...
...less a virtue of the current production that Eric Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well-spoken tapestry King; only the Hal falls short, from too metronomic a speech and schoolboy...
...waspishly glad about it: "What would my brother be doing? He'd be a horrible ass of some sort-a terrible gland case." Alex was "rocked" by the urge to paint when he first saw the works of Brueghel, but he modeled himself on George Grosz with a dash of Salvador Dali. The walls of his Park Avenue apartment are lined with pictures that look like bad dreams. King switched to illustrating books for bread-and-butter money, then bolted to journalism, and after his LIFE stint became managing editor of Stage. "Then I really hit bottom," says King...
...usually among the least tractable animals when captured and put behind bars. Equally ready to use fang and claw are baboons, and the rhesus monkeys on which so much medical research depends. But in the San Diego Zoo, a lynx that had bloodied its nose in a savage dash against the side of its cage was treated with a new tranquilizing drug mixed in its food, and was soon gamboling like an alley kitten. An attendant put his fingers through the wire of a tranquilized dingo's cage, and the big dog licked them gently. Baboons and lab monkeys...
...varsity will have its work cut out for it against Yale this winter. The Crimson should dominate the field events, especially if Cohen, Nichols, Doten, Bailey, and Blodgett continue to improve, but after Frank Yeomans in the dash and Blodgett in the hurdles, the running events look bleak...