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...except the Phoenix area and has a history of hard-riding political warfare. Last week, as national leaders of both parties watched closely, the two candidates for Udall's old seat began stepping up their campaigns for next month's election. The rivals: Republican Businessman Mac C. Matheson, 43, a smooth-speaking conservative, and Democratic Lawyer Morris K. ("Mo") Udall, 38, one of Stew's kid brothers...
...only Western commodity that interested the Chinese mandarins was gold, and the China trade might have drained all the gold out of Europe if shrewd merchants like Jardine, Matheson, Dent and Joseph Henry had not found a substitute currency in opium grown in British India. They were soon landing the drug in the Pearl River estuary at the rate of 6,000,000 lbs. a year. They defended themselves morally by calling opium "a harmless luxury and precious medicine except to those who abuse it," while taking the business line that if they did not sell it to the Chinese...
Faye Emerson and Murray Matheson starred in three of the nine one-acters that make up Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30. They did well with Ways and Means, a bedroom comedy complete with burglar. But why did they omit the final line? Without it, the end fell flat. Hands Across the Sea is a plotless bit of mayhem, a three-minute joke extended to thirty. Shadow Play is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It showed that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it did provide a good final...
This week's show includes three plays each requiring four women and five men, so that every performer gets a crack at playing three different people. The starring roles are taken by Faye Emerson and Murray Matheson...
...stars enjoy an uncommonly fine supporting cast--better than the Broadway one, and better directed: Catherine Proctor as the weak-willed Lady Matheson; Ann Shoemaker as the self-righteous, over-protective mother; Lucy Landau as a frank, portly horserace-enthusiast; Edgar Kent as a quiet ex-schoolmaster; Ralph Purdum as a liberal-minded medical student; Audrey Ridgwell as the coolly over-efficient hotel proprietress with a warm heart; and Adele Thane and Barbara Lester as waitresses. Only Ann Stanwell, as the student's girl, is below...