Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early politicking toward the 1960 Democratic National Convention, the Democratic Party's 35 Governors have been rated more as pawns than potential kingmakers. This campaign, said the pundits, belonged either to twice-defeated Adlai Stevenson or to one of four U.S. Senators: Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington or Texas' Lyndon Johnson. But as candidates and their hardheaded professionals get down to counting delegates, they will find the Governors in command of most delegations fully aware of their separate and collective bargaining power and-in some cases -firm believers that...
...million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California-as an all-out backer of Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy...
...suddenly in this play, almost as fast as those of Macbeth. Over and above this, much can be done to cover up the structural shortcomings by maintaining a rapid and unbroken flow. Much has been done in this regard in the current Stratford production, under the direction of Jack Landau. Landau has wisely allowed only one intermission. And, using a somewhat trimmed text, he has on occasion overlapped the scenes; for instance, the Capulets' ball gets under way before Romeo and his pals on the street outside have finished their say. The resulting production has a running time...
...finest male performance in this production is Jack Bittner's Tybalt. He plays Capulet's war-mongering nephew with brio and brimstone. Though physically very short of stature, Bittner is, by the time he is slain, fully one foot taller. Incidentally, all the swordplay in the production is splendid; arranged by Raymond Saint-Jacques, it is a far cry from the usual mamby-pamby skirmishing...
Tufts Arena Theatre (Medford): June 30-July 4, Ionesco's "The Lesson" and "Jack"; July 7-11, Goodrich and Hackett's "The Great Big Doorstep"; July 14-18, Glasgow's "Allison's House"; July 21-25, Bagnold's "The Chalk Garden"; July 28-August 1, Ugo Betti's "The Burnt Flowerbed"; August 4-8, Giraudoux' "The Enchanted...