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Separate Entrances. Trouble is, most emergency rooms are not organized to handle their burgeoning business. Many of them are out of date and ill-equipped, even for treating genuine accident cases. Many are understaffed; often enough the intern on duty is a foreign-born doctor whose language difficulties become almost insurmountable for the patient or his overwrought family. And the emergency room's new popularity is likely to cram it with cases of infectious disease-which is hardly to be desired for the accident victim brought in with an open wound. It is an unhappy situation for patients, doctors...
...Death of Bessie Smith, a play of eight scenes in its Boston premiere, has an internal impetus which manages to overcome the lethargic tempo of this production. Bessie Smith, the great Negro blues singer, died in Memphis, Tennessee, because she was not permitted in a white hospital after an automobile crash. This play, in examining the anguished relations among a tyrannical nurse, a liberal intern, and an Uncle Tom orderly in a hospital admissions room, reveals the human sources of this futile death. The death motif is central to all of Albee's plays, and in this one, the physical...
...tired of lying about the truth ... I am tired of my skin ... I WANT OUT!" Jack, Bessie's driver and boy-friend, comes to this hospital, after being turned away from another, asking someone to help Bessie, knowing she is already dead in the car. The intern and the orderly, defying the nurse, go out to confront the all-too-real agony. The play ends with the cries of all combining into one shriek, which soon dies, because it is not heard...
...alternating laughing and mumbling, evokes nothing more than the character of a laugher and a mumbler. This effect may be what the actor strived for. If it is, the acting is so false and strained that the audience is jarred. Franklyn Spodak and Herbert Davis fare better as the intern and orderly. The problem the cast had with remembering lines has, hopefully, been solved by now--for until an actor knows where he is physically in the script, he cannot know where he is emotionally in the play...
Preparing himself to be a leader in the American advance, Francis Moore went straight into a nine-year progression through intern, resident, and assistant in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. There, in 1942, he was one of the surgeons who treated survivors of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. That holocaust, in which 500 died, emphasized surgery's need to know far more about a burn victim than the state of his skin grafts-to know what is happening to his emotions and to a dozen of his body chemicals...