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...Laos House), Washington, D.C. (Quest), Decatur, Ga. (Adanta), Calais, Vt. (Sky Farm Institute), and scores of other com munities. The groups can vary in size from half a dozen friends meeting in a big-city apartment to hundreds and even thousands of complete strangers at a psychological convention. The gamut is as wide as the cost, which can run anywhere from $30 or less for a weekend marathon encounter session in a church basement (see box page 56) to $2,100 for a seven-week training program at the National Training Laboratories...
Michael Kahn, eschewing a tragicomic view of the play, has pushed his production along the gamut to pure comedy and at times beyond this in the direction of farce. The advantage accruing from this is that audiences will readily accept, under the guise of comedy, the kind of silly plot that they would not swallow in a serious work. But there is a disadvantage too: a comic interpretation tends to prevent the audience from realizing that grave issues are being extensively dealt with in this play. Kahn made his choice, and has proven its viability beyond a doubt...
...these sculptures, murals, playgrounds and unclassifiable opuses aren't meant for millionaires' collections or 9-5, open-late-on-Tuesdays museums-they will enliven streets and public places. And perhaps because anyone from grade-school children to established artists could submit a project, designs run a never-stuffy gamut from the mischievous to the elegant...
Died. Louis Shonceit, 69, owner of Mackey's Inc., one of Broadway's biggest ticket brokers, who peddled 200,000 seats a year to a clientele that ran the gamut, Shonceit liked to say, from George Abbot to Darryl Zanuck; after a long illness following a stroke in 1965; in Palma de Mallorca, Spain...
...blonde Hollywood veteran who starred in more than 70 films; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A trouper since the age of five when she played in The Sixth Commandment, she was regarded as the most beautiful woman in films during the late 1930s. Her roles ran the Hollywood gamut (Casanova Brown; Retreat, Hell!), but she confessed a preference for period and costume pictures (Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Marie Antoinette in Madame Du Barry...