Word: dell
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...rather loose, but Moliere was careful that each act would top the previous one. He noted down a good deal of the comic byplay; but, just as certainly, he intended the performance to be decked out with a lot of improvised farce, in the tradition of the Italian commedia dell'arte, for which French Baroque court circles had an overwhelming passion...
...Commedia dell'arte features abound in this play, and director Samuel Hirsch and costumer Phil Robb were quick to emphasize the connections. It would of course be too much to expect the players to have evolved a really consistent style of ensemble comedy in a few weeks, but the current production is more than adequate, and three of the performances are top-notch. (I do, however, miss in the updated translation the wonderful old repertory of varied expletives that pepper the text...
Thus far the San Francisco club has been banking on tremendous hitting and the soft, slow curves of ex-American leaguers Billy Pierce and Billy O'Dell. That pair, and hard-throwing Juan Marichal have accounted for 20 of the club's 33 victories, but the staff cannot be called solid unless Mike McCormick returns to form...
Number one man Bob Bowditch, unbeaten against New England competition, heads the Crimson delegation and will be favored to take the singles championship he won as a sophomore two years ago. Last year at New Haven, Bowditch went to the semi-finals before losing to Yale's Donald Dell...
...remains from the top eight of Yale's great 1960 team, which swept through the entire season undefeated. Don Dell and Gene Scott, the finalists in last year's New England tournament, have graduated, as have Giff Hopkins, Rick Wallace and Sunny Howe. Mike Neely has dropped out of school, and--to top coach John Skillman's woes--Sid Wood and captain-elect Craig Joyner were killed in a tragic automobile accident just before the current season started...