Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion that slowly turned into a growling Lyndon Johnson...
After a series of campus uprisings, the University of California at Berkeley last January set up a joint student-faculty committee to study ways to avert future disorders. This week the committee-headed by Law Professor Caleb Foote and Graduate Student Henry E. Mayer-released a 250-page report that charged almost everybody involved in past troubles with pursuing "partisan ends" but also recommended some sound proposals as to how the school should govern itself...
...decision to integrate scene changes into the action is particularly fortunate, given that Mayer's construction calls for tag lines, blackouts, and the immediate appearance of a next scene. Mayer's sense here borders on the cinematographic: one transition hinges on sound (a boisterous marching song fades into a church hymn), others on highly graphic contrasts of light and mood...
Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...
...play of some importance which approaches greatness. Its color and spectacle, energy and incredible humor, give the Loeb a kind of total theatre it rarely sees. Without attempting to offer up Prince Erie as an object lesson to aspiring Harvard theatremakers, it should just be said that Mayer's triumph is probably the best thing that's happened around this place in years...