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Next only to the match that General Sherman lit on their premises, many Georgians regard the 1955-59 administration of Governor Marvin Griffin as the worst disaster ever to hit the state. In the words of a grand jury, the state government under Griffin was characterized by the "perfidious conduct of state officials heretofore inconceivable to the minds of citizens." Nearly two dozen people were charged with almost everything except stealing the roof off the Statehouse; among the convicted were a former member of the state board of corrections, a former state park director, and a former assistant state purchasing...
...local comic geniuses, David Cole and Kenneth Tigar, mug their way through minor roles. Cole is the comic Cockney, and very much so; and Tigar's beatific moronic grin makes him much the most memorable of Captain Brassbound's crew. The Captain himself is, alas, not so memorable. Tom Griffin looks dashing enough, but his voice remains as flat and as blurred as ever...
...Joseph Everingham, opens Wednesday, August 1, as the third offering of the Harvard Summer School Players' season at the Loeb Drama Center. The play, set in North Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...
...rate actors this summer (Paul Barstow is back, and that is nice; David S. Cole and Samuel Abbott have moved in from the winter Gilbert and Sullivan troupe), and a lot of very enthusiastic people, but none of them seems very happy in his role in this play. Tom Griffin is monotonous (and bored?) as Jack Burden; Terence Currier's Willie Stark seldom evokes any touch of the mesmeric damagoguery of the man -- although he's better once he gets a cigar in his mouth; Abbott (Tiny Duffy) has to keep fighting back the blue-blooded intonations of Lord Tolloller...
...corralling most of the advertising and shooting off his mouth about those right-wingers on that other paper. For the first time in its history, the Independent really began to scratch for news, and in Pecos the news, as usual, involved Billie Sol. The suspicions of Independent Editor Oscar Griffin, 29, zeroed in on the 15,000 fertilizer tanks that Billie Sol was supposed to own. Week after week, the Independent needled Billie Sol. That was well before anyone else thought of saying anything out loud...