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Bruce Kornbluth's Sergeant Kite is a masterpiece of Villainy; his masquerades as a lady fortune-teller and as a preacher are splendidly done. K. Lype O'Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...
...process of elimination points the finger rather squarely at K. Lype O'Dell and Marjorie Lerstrom, who, as Vanya and Yelena, are responsible for holding the play together. But from O'Dell one gets only the sense of a dull, complaining man. One does not find in this Vanya the education with which Astrov credits him, nor the profound melancholy the others are constantly pointing out. His philosophy comes out flat; if there is one scene in the play that is disastrously bad it is his soliloquy early in Act II, where, instead of protest at a wasted life...
...Dumb Waiter is a very funny play, and Director Robert Chapman has chosen to emphasize its comic aspects--at the expense of just about everything else. Gus, played by K. Lype O'Dell, is a perfect buffoon throughout the play. Ben(David Meneghel) is more the prototype of the cool, calm professional killer, but he eventually is caught up in volatile arguments with Gus about absolutely trivial subjects. If The Dumb Waiter were only a funny play, if Pinter were capable of nothing more than writing funny dialogue, one could scarcely have found fault with O'dell's or Meneghel...
This fusion of books and promotion has attracted more than 40 book companies into the field. Dell Publishing Co., a leader in general paperback sales, three months ago started a new corporate division to handle books for business. Venerable Doubleday & Co. doubled its sales of such books within a year, in 1964 printed 3,000,000 books for 25 corporations. Deepest in the book business is little Benjamin Co., a 20-man organization that distributes the books of 20 publishers, including Pocket Books, Bantam, Golden Press and Simon and Schuster. Headed by former Advertising Executive Roy Benjamin, 48, the company...
...which was overall the best of the three pieces. The Comedy was the closest thing to "Jazz," both musically and choreographically influ-performance. John Lewis's music is heavily influenced by the Jazz style he must use in the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Comedy depicts characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, an improvisational type of popular drama which Lewis believes was to the late seventeenth century as jazz is to the middle twentieth. The ballet was first performed under Lewis's baton in Paris...