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...veranda of his two-room, wattle-and-daub hut outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
...muttered Creole incantations, then genially beat drums and rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...
...Richard Jaeckel) neck in the parlor. Forsaking his usual swashbuckling roles, Burt Lancaster plays the sleepwalking Doc with great earnestness, but his performance frequently makes the character seem wooden rather than frustrated. It is in Shirley Booth's characterization that the movie really catches fire. Making her screen debut at 45, after some twoscore years of success on stage and radio (she was the original Miss Duffy of Duffy's Tavern), auburn-haired Actress Booth, shiftlessly waddling around and prattling away endlessly in a singsong voice, does a highly skillful job of bringing the gabby, good-natured, slatternly...
Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a minor but moving tragedy on a major theme: the lives of quiet desperation that men lead. Its central characters are two mismated people: Doc (Burt Lancaster), who was once a promising medical student, and "pretty Lola" (Shirley Booth), who once had lots of beaux. Then Doc got Lola into trouble and had to marry her; their baby died. Now, after 20 years which seems to have "vanished into thin air," Doc is a chiropractor and a reformed drunk, while Lola is "old, fat and sloppy," with nothing on her mind...
...University asked the conductor of the College choir, Archibald T. Davison '06 to fill the post. Davison accepted, on the condition--that he get no pay. Coasting on the brink of bankruptcy the HGC agreed. Their leader for 22 years, Davison was "Doc" to a whole generation of Harvard singers...