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...result, brokers are in a depression of their own. Relatively light trading volume and sagging prices have cut into their commission income. "Our switchboard operator is making more money than we are," says Joe Griffith, a Dallas broker. Bache & Co. recently laid off about 500 employees, and the American Stock Exchange dropped 100. Two major firms, McDonnell & Co. and Gregory & Sons, have closed their doors; several others are reported to be in trouble because of insufficient capital. A number of them may be forced into shotgun mergers. The New York Stock Exchange last week began steps to increase the trust...
...hard for me to pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong with this show, because it so often seems headed in the right direction. Carl Fredrich Oberle's sets. which make brilliant use of projections (including a still from D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ), are perfectly conceived, as are Elizabeth Tullis's costumes and Sara Linnie Slocum's lighting. Not to mention Charles Langmuir's assured performance of the hero (an anti-war American who goes off to fight the "war to end all wars") and that swell band gliding through the original Weill orchestrations...
...less than ever before. On the canceled list: / Dream of Jeannie, Daniel Boone, Dragnet '70, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Then Came Branson and My World and Welcome to It. In their place will go variety hours starring Black Comic Flip Wilson and Don Knotts (from the old Andy Griffith Show) plus Nancy, a sappy-sounding sitcom with Celeste Holm set in the White House. NBC has also taken on CBS Castoff Skelton, although for a half-hour at a time instead of an hour...
...Duke d'Escargot (played with prinking precision by Victor Spinetti) persuades the Corsican Brothers to help him overthrow Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith). As the Corsicans approach Paris in disguise, their boat is attacked by the revolutionaries. In the fray the peasant brothers filch their counterparts' violin case containing their noble credentials. After that, le deluge...
Incipient Insanity. What keeps this centrifugal production from flying apart is extravagantly funny performances by Wilder, Griffith and-especially-Sutherland. Wilder's frenetic talents are perfectly pitched to the neurasthenic Philippe de Sisi. Griffith wears his patented oblique stare of incipient insanity as the feckless, fatuous Louis. Sutherland is both immensely vital and painstakingly subtle. His lumbering lout is a Gallic version of Steinbeck's Lennie. Yet with a tiny moue he transforms the sow's-ear peasant into a silken, purse-lipped aristocrat. Alternately bumbling and mincing, Sutherland irreverently manages to impale both egalite and elegance...