Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns, music, lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris...
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, blends clowns and music and lacerated feet and shrieking nerves to prove that life is a grueling test rather like a 3,000-hour dance marathon. In this strange spectacle that suggests new directions for the U.S. theater, Julie Harris is put to the test, and her inspiring childlike ardor makes this one of her finest performances...
Marathon '33, written and directed by June Havoc, is liberally laced with music and dance, yet it is not a musical. It is housed in a Broadway playhouse, but it is not a play. It is more nearly a spectacle-the kind that people have in mind when they talk of "making a spectacle of oneself," funny yet frightening, poignant, pitiable and a little tawdry. It follows no plot, but simply coils, sometimes slackly, sometimes snugly, around an event: a dance marathon. But it clings to an abiding vision that life is a grueling test, rather like...
Making her first appearance in the roped-off arena of a seedy American Legion hall, June (Julie Harris) seems least likely to endure. Her head is full of warm muzzy memories of the vaudeville circuit where she was a child star, just as Playwright Havoc, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, once was. June finds the marathon degrading and unpalatable, but hunger makes her stomach it. From her partner, Lee Allen, she learns contest protocol: about the "horses" who drag-carry their sleeping partners around the floor with proud belligerence, and about the clowns who must check out after...
Exporting Men. Some European governments seem almost to discourage research. In Italy, until recently, private industry's R. & D. budgets were taxed as hidden profits; in Germany R. & D. spending is hampered by low depreciation allowances. Germans also complain that the havoc of World War II slowed them grievously, and that higher-paying U.S. corporations continue to siphon off German scientists. General Electric recruiters recently interviewed 170 scientists in Germany, signed up 40 of them...