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...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...
...strike for higher wages, they went before reporters and microphones last week to announce the biggest sales and earnings in their history. The figures for the top eleven steel firms that have reported for the half year were so extraordinary that they immediately set off a new duel between management and labor, brought widespread suggestions that the industry consider a cut in steel prices to share its profit performance with the consumer. The companies reported total net income up 140% over the first half of recession 1958, while average earnings per share of the eleven rose...
...management and labor sit down to negotiate a new wage agreement, working against the steadily approaching threat of a strike deadline. Labor cockily demands a fat wage hike-and management just as cockily turns it down. Eight times since World War II they have fought their suspenseful duel; five times it resulted in strikes, three times in an early agreement. This week the U.S. was up against the old deadline once more. But this time there was a vital difference...
...Viola-Aguecheek duel is lengthy (there must be five minutes without a word), but hilarious all the way. And to inspirit the combatants, Berghof has his Dancing Zany beat a drum during the dueling--an historically authentic touch. There are many other instances of inspired staging. And at the end, instead of having everyone exit and leave Feste alone to sing the closing song, Berghof brings everybody on stage, even Malvolio, and has each principal sing a solo bit as in a massed opera buffa finale...
...comes off well in the hands of Richard Waring. And Morris Carnovsky is marvelously crotchety as Caius, the French physician, who is normally "abusing of God's patience and the King's English." Carnovsky has introduced some side-splitting bits with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year-old Mark Carson acquits himself admirably in his amusing Latin lesson with Evans...