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Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...
...Dramatic Club's production is competent, considering the circumstances. The actors, almost to a man, indulge in speechifying, varying from tense dramatic whispers to semi-hysterical out-bursts. But such melodramatics seem to be inherent in the play. Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence...
...Erickson and Bert Kelsey, professional dramatists for the Federal Theater, accepted co-directorship of the play last night. Shaw himself has promised to rewrite the work. Lee Strasberg, director of the recent "Skipper Next to God," will give additional professional aid as production supervisor. 'Cliffe Gives "Masque of Mercy...
Town Meeting of the Air (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Topic: "Is Universal Military Training Necessary for our National Security?" Speakers: Brigadier General John M. Devine, Arkansas' Senator J. William Fulbright, Socialist Norman Thomas, Montana Judge Leif Erickson...
...RODNEY ERICKSON...