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Donald Harron's bow-legged Verges and all the men of the watch are properly mangy. But Larry Gates as the pompous and malapropistic Dogberry is disappointing to one who remembers Edward Finnegan's magnificent portrayal here at the Brattle Theatre. It is a far richer part than Gates makes...
...wife, did her captivating best with an absurdly implausible role. Kevin McCarthy was exuberantly athletic and flery in the leading role of the brash and blasphemous wayward son Dick Dudgeon. Martyn Green relished his brief appearance in act three as the sly General Burgoyne; and Muriel Berkson, Edward Finnegan and John Heldabrand provided excellent support. The outdoor theatre had one great advantage: when Dick was about to be hanged (see cut above), the Reverend was able to come charging to the rescue on horseback...
...four top-rate shows like Miss Julie, Finnigans Wake, and Deathwatch set standards of acting and production techniques which the other groups will try to emulate. The Dramat seems to have been happy with the results of the weekend; it has scheduled another festival for next year. Thus Finnegan's symbolic coffin appears not to have been the emblem of the great event after all.A members of the Vassar production staff acts as a solitary guinea pig for the light-testing crews...
Peace talks were not broken off. But they lacked the optimistic zip of yesterday's prestrike negotiations. The nation's top labor peacemaker, James F. Finnegan, national director of federal mediation, remarked...
...already the wire-service reporters were pulling out their "gloom descended" leads for the scene around Stevenson head quarters, while in Chicago at 10:30 Stevenson Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan and Campaign Treasurer Matt McCloskey were on the telephones to their home state, Pennsylvania. "How bad did we get licked?" asked McCloskey on one phone. "So we're behind in Lackawanna and Allegheny, too, eh?" Finnegan muttered on another. Only a robust Democratic lead in the Pennsylvania senatorial race brightened Finnegan's wake. The 11 p.m. calculators had Ike leading in states worth 441 electoral votes, Stevenson...