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...actor parents. As a boy he went to school for a year or two in Poland, speaks its language and understands its plight. His hero is a boy of 14 who is led into a forest by his doctor father and left with a supply of potatoes in a dugout. His mother has been taken to one of the brothels set up by the Germans, and it is a long time before Janek knows that his father was killed when, alone, he attacked her keepers...
...play the next day against Cuba. Worse yet for Panama fans, Lopez announced that he was too sick to take the field. After Lopez' hapless sub had made two errors, orange husks began to swirl out of the stands like snow. Hundreds of spectators jammed around the dugout as desperate umpires begged Lopez to play so that the game could go on. Lopez finally acceded to the wishes of his public, but he went none for four as Cuba trimmed his team 10-7 and walked off with the championship. Around the Caribbean, baseball fans put away their Roman...
...Thomas W. Phipps' Motel Siobhan McKenna plays a prominent Washington lawyer who believes herself to be in love with her much younger and very eager assistant, and so accompanies him to the Dugout Motel. Presumably ensconced there for the evening, she suddenly leaps from bed and exclaims in anguish, "I just don't know what I'm doing here!" With regard to Miss McKenna's position as a brilliant actress, these are appropriate words, for Motel is a very, very bad play...
With Motel, American drama has reached the nadir in its quest for the misbegotten hero: enter Wally Troy, retired major league baseball star (hit .325, 127 rbi's in his best year) and present owner of the Dugout Motel. Helping Myron McCormick as Wally is Vicki Cummings as Ruby, his complaining wife. Ruby has discovered that old baseball players make lousy motel owners, and she yearns for the old days when she had something to cheer about...
...Phipps has a view of human nature which makes it as malleable as a baseball game where the batters make sacrifice plays for each other. Perhaps this dugout philosophy has truth in it, but that the rules for happiness and self discovery should effuse from the straight-jacket mind of Wally Troy is repulsive to anyone's sensibility. Ruby Troy's loneliness, which Wally fails to understand or aid, is the most genuine problem, which Phipps fails to develop, since it would interfere with his pat ending...