Word: hiawatha
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...what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around smacking wet lips...
...matters cultural, Nikita Khrushchev is simply not with it; modern art gives him indigestion, and he regards jazz as so much noise. Last week the Kremlin's Red Square reached all the way back to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow trying to convert The Song of Hiawatha into a Communist ballad for disarmament without inspection or controls...
...Tricks & Gambols." The provocation consisted mainly of reminding Khrushchev that his professed willingness to smoke the peace pipe was being received with increasing skepticism by even those who do not sit at Western powwows. As Khrushchev should have known, even Hiawatha discovered the need for controls over war clubs...
...Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then: Ended were his wild adventures, Ended were his tricks and gambols, Ended all his craft and cunning, Ended all his mischiefmaking...
Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words...