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...college play, or was summarily reassigned from the sports section of his publication during an acute journalistic drought. The less charitable view is that the fellow is a failed playwright who plumps into his opening-night seat on the aisle palsied with envy and gurgling with bile. Percy Hammond, a formidable drama critic of vinegary wit, once gave a simpler answer: "Because I get paid...
Scientology is growing. According to the Cambridge Center, the worldwide movement now has over three million members and increases six fold every year. The list of prominent Scientologists includes actor Stephen Boyd, Salvador Dali, Donovan, Mama Cass. Leonard Cohen, blues singer John Hammond, the Incredible String Band, two of the Gateful Dead, science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, and others. If Scientology is actually the bridge to a world of super-things, there seem to be some exceptional people on that bridge now. You do want to be on the winning side, don't you? It's later than you think...
...problem seems to be a question of pace. The first act, where we see Johnny leaving girl and principles behind to become a doughboy, is very expository and should move like lightning if we are to keep interested. Director David Hammond is not up to the task; I constantly felt we were watching a walk-through of the show rather than a run-through or, if I may be so demanding, a performance for an audience. Polish, as they say, was lacking...
...week, in the hope of demolishing that argument, American Cancer Society researchers reported that of 36 beagles they had trained to smoke heavily, twelve had developed lung cancer. The cancer victims had smoked seven to nine unfiltered cigarettes a day over a 21-year period. That, Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond figured, was the equivalent of a man's smoking almost two packs a day for 18 years, after making allowance for the beagles' size and shorter life span. Two of the dogs' cancers were indistinguishable from human smokers' lung cancer; the remaining ten were of types...
...CENTER of both this production and its plot is David Hammond, who serves as stage director while also playing Dr. Filke, the vengeful young man who is the focus of all the intrigue. Outfitted in tails and cane. Hammond looks like a Beerbohm cartoon for the endpapers of a Firbank novel. Little wonder, then, that he is exactly into the spirit of the piece...