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THEATER On Broadway POOR RICHARD. Jean Kerr is still wearing the life-of-the-party grin from Mary, Mary, but behind the witticisms something sobering denies that life is that kind of party at all. With Alan Bates playing a lyric poet turned wench charmer and lush, the comedy is less funny than Mary, Mary but more probingly perceptive...
...moved slowly through a rambling account of the riots at Berkeley, castigating Kerr for turning the university into a "knowledge factory," he paused frequently to gather his thoughts. When he made a point and saw that the audience was pleased, he would cock his head back and grin. After reciting some story of unfairness by the administration, he suddenly stopped as if disturbed by the monotony of his description and said sharply, "But we shafted'em, and I'll describe...
...upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
Poor Richard. Success defines the limits of a playwright; failure may suggest his aspirations. Jean Kerr's Poor Richard is that kind of failure. She comes to the new play still wearing the life-of-the-party grin from Mary, Mary, but something in her mind is now saying that life is not that kind of party at all, and the result is a probing but irresolute comedy. Mary, Mary was a joke-filled shopping bag that existed to be torn so that the laughs would tumble out. Poor Richard is a net hopefully cast to trap character...
...Ordaz plane on the asphalt runway behind the ranch house in his electric golf cart, the same one in which he gave Lady Bird a few anxious moments careening around the grounds the next day (see cut). Díaz Ordaz was ready for him, and with a grin even broader than the President's own, wrapped Lyndon in a bear-hug Mexican abrazo, while his wife planted a kiss on Lady Bird's cheek...