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...subject is a whale; the insight is into man. For Dr. Scheffer's supreme achievement is to take the king of the ocean's beasts, careering half-blindly across the world's seas, and cast him as Lear...
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Musicarnival. On Time, a new revue, takes some of the unlikeliest sources-King Lear, The Seagull, Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and the Bible -to illustrate its theme, the generation gap through the ages. It was compiled by Howard da Silva, Felix Leon and Alfred Drake, who also stars; music and lyrics by Charles Burr...
American League Manager Mayo Smith of Detroit then rushed in the ace of his own mound staff, Denny McLain. The Tiger righthander had flown home in his personal Lear jet to have his deteriorating teeth examined, returned just in time to dress and warm up for the fourth inning. McCovey greeted McLain by rapping his third pitch over the rightfield fence for the fifth home run of the game...
CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Los Gatos (through Sept. 28). Twelfth Night, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear are the choices...
...cheer those who think his talents are wasted in films. "Much of acting is tedium for me now," he reflected. "I've suddenly realized that doing nothing is marvelous. What I'd like to do is appear in two plays-Sartre's The Devil and King Lear-and then just disappear from view...