Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the last elections, everyone was saying Ted Kennedy could spend the campaign in Miami and still win. Who knows? Maybe he hired a stand-in and did just that. But Mr. Anthony Graham-White, to whom the program for Silk Stockings assigns the title "Director," though he must have spent at least half the rehearsal time for the show in some place other than Cambridge, obviously had the good grace to pop back up to these stormy shores for the rehearsals of the second...
...foolishness of the plot and let the gags do their worst, and the girls give their all. One of the reasons Act I is disappointing is that the material is simply awful: unrecognizable as acceptable music hall fare, much less as Cole Porter musical comedy. And, of course, Mr. Graham-White, for reasons into which we need not inquire, wasn't around...
...some style with his sex, producer John Millet wisely called on Ciji Ware to choreograph the show. Unhappily, Act I has only one production number for Miss Ware to handle, so most of the hootchie-kootchie was left to the absent Mr. Graham-White to deal with; and his bad taste is consistent. I like as much kootch in my hootch as the next man, but there were moments when I felt myself compromised by what was going on up there. For one example, instead of having Stephen Canfield (Daniel Cheever), Ninotcha's American, merely kiss his frosty Russian...
...know?" In another part of the room, a marvelously attenuated adolescent boy clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn talent of considerable versatility and force...
...private, Miller is serious about himself, and his book. "Although it's a satire, I want my book taken seriously," he says. "If you prefer, you can take it as an 'entertainment'--in the sense Graham Greene uses the word--as long as you take your entertainments seriously...