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...young playwrights mixed magic and mediocrity in the Experimental Theatre last evening. Marie-France Lathrop's mime--Others, I Am Not The First--was magical. Senior Jonathan Sisson's Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe provided most of the mediocrity...
...only were all of the players in Others good; most of them were excellent. Weisman, Mlle. Lathrop, Joan Oppenheim, and Puorro deserve the highest praise...
...mime consists of four interrelated scenes preceded by "phases," as Mlle. Lathrop describes them. Each phase is an interlude in which Michael Puorro, who is a baby as the mime opens, grows older. Puorro is especially convincing as he discovers his fingers and hands and learns to walk. His symbolic tug-of-war to hold onto life--pulling on an imaginary rope with Norris Eisenberg on the other end--is graceful and agonizing...
...Matthau is an actor of magnetic presence and great comic flair. In this film he looks like a young Robert Benchley and sounds almost as amusing. In a role that calls for him to be someone, rather than to act something, Kirk Douglas is totally and movingly convincing. Philip Lathrop's camera work has harsh dramatic clarity and Jerry Goldsmith's score just the right mixture of nostalgic balladry and percussive tension, and even when the hand of ironic coincidence seems to overshape a scene or two, Dalton Trumbo's script is refreshingly tart and literate. Pooling...
...former special assistant to President Eisenhower for science and technology will accept the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award in Washington...