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...know you, your problem is you haven't even begun to shop. Got it in one, eh? Yes, and now Cardullo's is closed (not that Aunt Edna liked those sticky Smyrna figs you palmed off on her last year, anyway), and Uncle Jack is much too busy at Leavitt and Peirce's to attend to your simple needs (Cousin Thelma wasn't at ali pleased with those personalized kitchen matches, you will remember). What, then, is to be done? Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all, and if you'll sit very still...
Moral: (Food For Thought) if you don't carry a gun--keep a holster & pipe on hand. They may have mugged & robbed me & may have killed me. Who knows? Jack ("Uncle Jack") Levine, Associated with Leavitt & Peirce...
...area in which the Radcliffe girl lives is "a kind of secular Vatican," Arlen says, "keeping its own counsel amid the sprawl and bafflements of the town." Here the sleeker, better-looking 'Cliffie drinks coffee in haunts such as "Leavitt & Pierce's [sic], as dark...
...Leavitt's ingenuity hardly ends here, for his handling of the clowns shows how shrewdly he can exploit actors reacting not only to space but to each other. His crew of patches works together as if it had been training in vaudeville for years; maybe the mechanicals don't laugh hard enough at those gay old parochial Elizabethan jokes abous syphilis and sonnets, but their sense of timing and horseplay is just superb. Terry Malick's Bottom, who "gleeks on occasion" with wonderfully oafish conceit, and Philip Traci's absurdly studied Quince are the true leaders of this...
...then Leavitt tries to make his lovers act like clowns as well, and the method horribly breaks down. The play is carefully and clearly constructed to develop four different sorts of characters (court, fairies, lovers, clowns) who use different language, and this production loses greatly by blurring Shakespeare's distinctions. The highly mannered speech and in heretly ludicrous situation of the infatuated pairs ought to be enough to define their place in the comedy Leavitt has them fooling around in a style completely inappropriate to their parts. Helena (Janet Leslie) make it clear how fine they can be as fighting...