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...narrow ledge of the high Andes, 75 miles northwest of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
...eminently workable. Carrie Nye's Cressida, first in a lovely gray gown with salmon stole and parasol and later in sultry red velvet, is a southern belle-wether of wantonness (I half expected to hear the Duke of Mantua singing "La donna e mobile" in the wings). And Hiram Sherman brings the suave relish of a Kentucky colonel to the role of Pandarus...
...Hiram Sherman is a colloquially humorous Touchstone; and Alek Primrose makes a memorable character of the octogenarian servant Adam. Donald Davis has effective moments as Jaques, but his famous "seven ages" speech is not yet acidulous enough and he often substitutes h's for r's in words like "part." Will Geer brings warmth...
...ancillary characters in Macbeath, compared with those in the other great tragedies, are notoriously sketchy. But they constitute the chief acting strength of this production. Donald Harron's Banquo is keen and alert; and Hiram Sherman's drunken Porter is properly diverting...
Although Meyer ran a scrupulously ethical Administration, it was not long before there was rumbling about the President's "kitchen cabinet." (One wag said a Jewish President should have "two kitchen cabinets," one for milk and one for meat.) The President's 15-year-old son, Hiram, and his 25-year-old daughter, Deborah, both had to be lifted bodily from their beds every Saturday morning to be marched to the synagogue with the family for the waiting photographers...