Word: fletcherism
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...Ulysses, gives perhaps the top performance of the play. His interpretation of the shrewd Greek strategist, practical, polite, and somehow sinister is a quite convincing one. Hector, who comes closer to being the hero of the play then Troilus does, is a straight and rather dull part. Robert Fletcher handles it well, if with a bit too much restraint. His seting here shows considerably more reserve than in last year's performance...
Robert O'Hearn's sets are adequate, but they seem too heavy and static. The costumes, by Robert Fletcher, are generally brief, but interesting, if you don't mind gilded lumberjack hoots and bathing suits. Miles Morgan's lighting is well handled, particularly in the last seene after Hector's death...
...been swallowed up by the puppet world he made. The world revolves around Kukla, a pinch-faced, sadly wise, sentimental puppet, and Ollie, a one-toothed dragon whose preenings and posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother was a suffragette, and who consequently takes a serious, rather cautious point of view and is a bit of a bore"; Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Hallowe'en; Cecil Bill, a hysteric in a frightwig; Colonel Cracky ("from the Old South, suh"); Ophelia...
President Truman's Point Four, which provides for aid to backward parts of the world, can be carried too far, John Fletcher-Cooke, British delegate to the United Nations, said at last night's Dunster Forum on "The Problem of the Emergent Peoples...
...Fletcher Cooke discussed the achievement of self-government in large portions of Asia and Africa, the present and past colonial policy of Great Britain, and aspects of the UN decisions on trusteeships and non-self-governing colonies...