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...lower Broadway. Next day she hopped down to Washington and was soon sitting in the front row of the House of Representatives' diplomatic gallery. Gleefully getting around an inflexible House rule that no gallery visitor may be introduced or even pointed out, Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd reminded the House that Geneviève was in the U.S., welcomed her and suggested that "we pay tribute to her-wherever she may be." Smiling demurely, Geneviève got a happy, if oblique, bipartisan ovation. Two days later, standing between Ike and Mamie Eisenhower on the steps...
Apart from Mary Arnold's graceful and appropriate choreography, staging is the weakest link in the production, Mr. Judd moves his players with clarity and pace, but--especially in Act I--there is too much background fidgeting to provide "action" for some longer numbers...
Despite a few stirring moments and occasionally, beautiful imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
...Life I Give." Tennessee's Percy Priest rushed to Roberts' side and fashioned a tourniquet from his necktie and fountain pen. Representatives Walter Judd and Arthur Miller, physicians, gave first aid to Bentley, before the Capitol's medical staff reached the scene...
...committee has held three meetings since its formation; Judd recently discussed the group's activities with President Pusey and critic John mason Brown '23, leader of the graduate committee...