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Harvard came back again when Bob Laughton fumbled the kickoff and Ulciekas recovered at the Bucknell 39. Nine plays later it was Harvard 21, Bucknell 17, with Bilodeau flipping a nine-yard pass to Leo for the score. Leo took the ball at the five, slanting across the middle and just reachjed the corner of the end zone before two Bisons thraw him out of bounds...
...rest of the backfield, Captain John Barron at fullback, Bob Laughton, and Hal Riley, hasn't had the coaches turning somersaults with joy. In fact, Bucknell's leading ground gainer against Gettysburg was Don Cook, a defensive back who was only left in on offense until Odell could get him out under the new substitution rule...
Dustin Hoffman, expertly leading the light-hearted approach to Chekhov as the tipsy doctor, is the funniest figure in the play. John Lasell manages to capitalize on Platonov's absurdities without making his tragic side incongruous. And Penelope Laughton portrays the simple naivete of Platonov's wife with great subtlety. Unfortunately, the roles of the young fop and the widow's stepson are somewhat overinflated by David Bouvier and Joseph O'Sullivan. And Betsy White, as the widow, proposes sin to Platonov like a lenient mother trying to sell her children on brushing after every meal...
...teeth." Still, the Theatre Company of Boston deserves applause for carefully avoding all "fancy talk." They play In the Jungle of Cities as literal Brecht, vintage of 1924, complete with staccato speeches and as consistent tragi-comic flippancy that fits the dialogue perfectly. Among a dozen fine performances, Penepole Laughton is outstanding as the delicate Mary Garga, who slips into prostitution after Shlink rebuffs her. Dan Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully...
...John Finley, with perhaps a hint of Angela Lansbury and Major Strasser. When he is on the stage, he does not dominate so much as devastate the pretensions of everyone else. He is, in fact, infinitely more attractive than Shakespeare's Duke ever can be; it is as though Laughton were playing Peter O'Toole...