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Tall Fireman Paul and Busy Policeman Joe (Victor). In the mythology of the city child, the policeman and firefighter are noble Hector and great Achilles. It is a brave myth, and this record, enriched by the street noises of everyday reality, does nothing to tarnish...
...true that these things must be seen to be believed, there should be quite a few believers among the students and Faculty members who met these remarkable boys and girls during their stay here. Those who were with them heard Hector Motroni, an American for four years, tell them, "At first I knew just about New York and Cuba, but now I want to know everything." They heard Robert Kay say, "When I see fellows just running around the streets, I say to myself, they're going to be sorry in twenty years. I'm going to make a good...
...Hector Motronl, the class valedictorian who learned how to play the piano while working as a bus-boy in a night club, gave the Harvard educators a picture of how much the project meant when he said, "I would be working now if not for the project. I needed to work, but the project was there, fortunately, I saw a big door opened and everything I wanted inside...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...conclusion, Mr. Aaron has staged the assassination of Hector brilliantly. This is his best scene. It provides Shakespeare's contemptuous resolution of an apathetic story with a well-planned, well-performed climax in terms of theatre. But in my opinion, the enervated drama as a whole gives amateurs impossible problems. They cannot speak either the prose or the poetry with music or clarity. Nor can they strike sparks off one another, as a professional company can. They remain individuals acting at one another rather than with one another...