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...Toby Hurd manages to extend one joke into a funny performance; Josh Rubins contracts a wealth of jokes into something not funny at all, except for a fine "Be Like the Bluebird...
...choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait of the Rev. C. P. Lewis." Hurd, of course, is the painter whose portrait of the President was rejected by L.B.J. as "the ugliest thing I ever saw." Improving on the script, Johnson last week chose as his 33rd wedding anniversary gift to Lady Bird...
...whose taste was formed earlier finds itself hard pressed. As Lady Bird Johnson remarked recently, while viewing a Roy Lichtenstein drawing: "I have friends who like it, own it, get excited about it. I keep trying." People who want a little peace and quiet in their art, Mrs. Peter Hurd said last week, are the ones who prefer the work of her brother, Andrew Wyeth. "He's probably painting the remnants of a simpler life," she admitted, and wondered if it was not his art, but the time, that has grown out of joint...
...Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire, who was once a police reporter, "and not be scooped." She seldom is. She guessed early that Jackie was pregnant with John Jr., was the first to pry confirmation from John Kennedy. She broke the story on President Johnson's rejection of the Peter Hurd portrait. Far from content with pool coverage, the Chicago Daily News's Colleen Dishon had an expert counterfeit an invitation to get her own reporter into the Jay Rockefeller-Sharon Percy wedding...
Both of these performances combine to eradicate the first act. Almost from the moment the curtain rises, O'Casey's realism is locked in battle with the stylized portions of the set, the vaudeville walk of Schlesinger, and the youthful voice and bearing of Hurd. It is this conflict--between the play and the production--which dominates the act and totally obscures its content. Because of it, Jack and Nora Clitheroe can make no impression as characters, and much of the later action, particularly in the last act, means nothing because the Clitheroes mean nothing...