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...employ pointless, often destructive and sometimes dangerous tactics. New Yorkers last week got a foretaste of what the Brooklyn CORE group's plan might mean: even without a deliberate stall-in, the opening-day crowd at new Shea Stadium, hard by the fairgrounds, caused a memorable traffic jam. The stall-in idea dismayed even the militant national leaders of CORE, who suspended the Brooklyn chapter...
...recruit the whole audience for their team; after that, no amount of minor inconsistencies or flat notes can keep the crowd from laughing along with Gilbert, hissing the villain, and clapping time to the exit pieces. It is not the best written show of the term, nor is it jam-packed with Harvard's drama talent; but you'll have more fun with G. and S. than with anyone else in town...
...meantime, a fairly sizable traffic jam has developed on the six remaining clay courts, the only ones available to undergraduates at Harvard. Priority on the courts is given to the top ten varsity players and the top eight freshmen; after that it's an open scramble among varsity and freshmen squad members with the losers being shunted off to the Soldiers Field hard courts...
...this is remarkable because Mr. Cooper has so many people in his Dogpatch. More than forty characters parade across the stage, all of them in splashy, comic strip costumes. Only a few mistakes could have produced a traffic jam as embarrassing as the one expected at the World's Fair. But there is no congestion, and Mr. Cooper has succeeded in making Al Capp's Dogpatchers more than a collection of slightly improbable freaks...
...Whom Charlie, by S. N. Behrman, uses the arena stage of Lincoln Center's Washington Square Theater for a kind of jam session of talk. There are reedy laments of guilt and loneliness, brassy growls of corruption and the low saxophone moans of sex, but the play lacks cohesion, direction and a solid beat...