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...originality, of unforgettable theatrical and human truth, in the gripping new play The Fiery Furnace. Unexpectedly, it does not come from the star, five-time Tony Award winner Julie Harris. In the best tradition of off-Broadway as the place where actors get discovered, it is little-known William Fichtner, as her engaging yet explosive son-in-law, who finds a gesture worthy of Brando...
...pros like Harris and Pendleton are considerable. So are the pleasures of encountering more serious drama than is common on Broadway. But nothing makes off-Broadway more exciting than the emergence of new talent, the sense of a career being born. That hope is fulfilled to overflowing by Fichtner and Rapp, who both combine exhilarating talent with terrifying insight into how destruction can serve as a mask for self-destruction...
...Fiery Furnace, Fichtner's character is confronted with having abused his wife and sons for years by a scholarly brother-in-law who pulls out a gun. Fichtner sinks into a chair, stares defiantly everywhere else and finally at his accuser, then thrusts his head forward straight into the barrel of the weapon. He conveys in the same swift deed a last spasm of dare-you defiance and a willing embrace of an end to his own pain. Although almost everything in Timothy Mason's stylistically messy melodrama has the power to surprise, nothing else comes close to that startling...
...secret," crowed Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf. "I'll say no more." He didn't have to. Whatever his secret was, it touched off a fire under his injury-ridden Boilermakers. Sophomore Quarterback Ross Fichtner, starting his first game, called his shots like a pro; Fullback Bob Jarus was a one-man wrecking crew. Between them, they clanged out a 20-13 victory over the top-ranked Spartans of Michigan State...
...pound class boasted some of the day's best wrestling as Tom Smyth turned in two outstanding performances in eliminating Frank Goodwin and Cliff Fichtner. Smyth will face Buddy King, also of Eliot House, in one of five finals to be held on Thursday...