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...University of Alabama for her own "safety" after mob pressure and then expelled because she charged that it was a put-up job. The Georgia riot got an extra touch of disrespect for law when at 2:30 a.m. the Governor's executive secretary, Peter Zack Geer, commended the mob: "The students at the university have demonstrated that Georgia youth are possessed with the character and courage not to submit to dictatorship and tyranny...
Died. Dirk Jan de Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...
...this play; but one cannot call Antony a tragedy about Enobarbus as one can call Julius Caesar a tragedy about Brutus. Donald Davis' traversal of Enobarbus' famous Barge narration is not up to par, but his later scenes of repentance and death are powerful acting Rae Allen (Charmian), Will Geer (Agrippa), Claude Woolman (Menas), and Richard Waring (Sooth-sayer) are commendable in smaller parts; but Patrick Hires' cracking falset-to as the eunuch Mardian is a miscalculation...
Trumpet-tongued Richard Waring is wonderfully cast as the swaggering braggart Parolles, an exhibitionist in sartorial as well as vocal matters. Larry Gates is a first-rate King of France, and nearly succeeds in making his sick-bed scene credible. Will Geer is a lovable Lafeu, and has come up with some very original and effective line-readings. Aline MacMahon is aptly warm-hearted as the Countess; and Barbara Barrie's Diana is properly wily yet pure. Hiram Sherman has fun with the Sergeant's mumbo-jumbo; and among other commendable jobs are Jack Bittner's Clown (though his most...
...meet again some of Falstaff's wonderful cronies from the Henry plays: the red-nosed Bardolph (Edward Asner); the swaggering Pistol (Richard Easton); Nym (Severn Darden), a "fellow frights English out of his wits"; and the aged Justice Shallow (Will Geer...