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...Brief, by John Mortimer. In comparison with the bite of The Bald Soprano, the whimsy of The Dock Brief is so vapid that it is tolerable only because it begins the evening. Little is news in The Dock Brief except perhaps the performances of the actors, Price and Edward Finnegan, which create imaginary or past worlds off the stage far more interesting than...
...role remains utterly authoritative. Despite all the superimposed encumbrances, she gives an astonishingly modulated performance based on a remarkable gift for subtle timing and inflection. I cannot imagine another player's surpassing this feat, which is destined to be a classic. Miss White is most ably supported by Edward Finnegan's Willie; indeed Finnegan is more piteous than was John Becher in the original production...
...portly senior jurist whose bulldog determination in the 1950s forced grand jury inquiries into tax fixing within the Bureau of Internal Revenue that ended, despite all attempts at whitewash, in indictments including such Truman Administration officials as T. Lamar Caudle and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue James P. Finnegan; in St. Louis...
...Morse ss 3 0 0 Bernstein 1b 4 0 1 Combs 1f 3 1 0 St. George rf 3 0 0 Gilmor cf 4 0 3 Diehl c 4 1 1 Yarbro p 3 2 0 Totals 29 8 6 B.U. (1) ab r h Finnegan 3b 5 0 0 Mahoney cf 3 0 0 Powers rf 2 0 0 McNulty 1b 4 0 0 Florczak ss 4 0 0 Gordon 2b 4 0 1 Poznauskis 1f 3 1 2 Gattozi c 2 0 1 McGinnis p 2 0 1 Souza 1 0 0 Celino p 1 0 0 Totals...
...singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change from the generally sullen mien of the folksinger. Songs include the famous "Tim Finnegan's Wake" ("a song of death...a song of resurrection"), "Brennan On the Moor," and (Orangemen take note) "The Old Orange Flute." I cannot recommend it too highly. (This means I own a copy.) The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem have several other releases, on Tradition and Riverside, which...