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HAMP tries a British youth for deserting when the blood and din of World War I overwhelm him. Though innocent of evil, he is guilty of breach of duty, and must be condemned. Robert Salvio is movingly effective as the frightened Private Hamp...
...theatrical firmament than those that gleam on the marquees on Broadway or off. Last week Philadelphia was host to a new drama of serious intent. As the playgoer enters the Theater of the Living Arts, he hears a soundtrack from nature as raucous and insidious as the din of city traffic. Cockatoos screech and hippopotamuses snort. Over the stage stretch tangled plastic vines. On the walls are murky film blowups of lions, elephants and monkeys. A combination of bamboo palace and automobile graveyard, the set is a raked topography of danger, containing in one scene a Daliesque montage of severed...
...past, the amplified din was so intense that the singers were wailing away in tongues that sounded like a cross between banshee and Bantu. Now, after the takeover of the folk rockers, the words are understandable and, in some cases, even worth understanding. In recent months the pop market has been penetrated by a new and impressive clutch of poet troubadours. They are mostly ex-folk singers who turn out their own numbers, are older than their forerunners and more musically sophisticated. They write songs with titles like A Single Desultory Philippic and Sunshine Superman. The recurring themes are loneliness...
Drowned in Din. Despite Cronkite's unqualified success as a newsman, the network persuaded him to try to be an entertainer as well. Reluctantly, he agreed to host a CBS morning program to compete with Dave Garroway's Today Show, and he found himself a hostage to show business. A gag writer was hired to write his lines, and he lost control of the program. "I was reasonably charming," he insists to this day, "but the whole thing didn't work...
...expected din would "remind people that we have this Belt problem," Vellucci told the Council...