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...four soldiers, two merit praise: Arthur Amsie's Polly Baker, growly, cigar-chomping, and shrewd, and Paul Marstow's (where would this summer's company have been without him?) Jeriah in the unfortunate temple robber betrayed by his mates. Tom Griffin is another one of the four; someday, perhaps, I will be able to understand what he is saying...
...finds it difficult to remain sufficiently four, and with his evident acting skill be often unconsciously upstages other actors, notably Peter Gesell who makes Touchstone little more than a fugitive from the Old Howard. perhaps the production would have been improved by Mr. Kazanoff's trading roles with Tom Griffin, whose Orlando, far from being ebullient, is dour and grumpy enough for a Richard III or an Edmund. (Mr. Griffin, sad to say, has been beset by two of the continuing Terrors of all Shakespearean acting: the Noble Voice, which attempts to sound English and inspiring and most closely resembles...
...hero of The Forger is Rufus Griffin, a Greenwich Village painter in his late 20s who makes poor money and worse puns ("All nudes is good nudes"). He falls in love with a rich man's girl friend and, to keep her in caviar and champagne, starts forging old masters. But the caviar turns to ashes in a psychologized unhappy ending. Most self-quest novels are assembled with interchangeable parts, and The Forger can be assembled and disassembled rather rapidly. Part 1 (colloquy): "What do you want out of life, Rufe?" Part 2 (ecstasy...
...prestige was at stake. Other proponents dangled patronage bait, reminded doubting Democrats that Kennedy will soon be awarding 73 new federal judgeships. They also warned that any "nay" voter surely would be branded as "antilabor"-an argument that particularly moved the Democratic co-author of the Landrum-Griffin labor law, Phil Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping up the pressure, White House Aide Larry O'Brien had in groups of Congressmen for breakfast almost every day, preaching: "Go along with us, just this once. If the voters back home...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...