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WORD GOT AROUND last week after Aladdin's messy opening night that the show resembled a high school pageant, but even in its more advanced state. Timothy Mayer's "work in progress" has the clumsy charm of an exemplary school production: friends, peers, teachers cavorting good-naturedly, often unsteadily, sometimes bursting out in wondrous and unexpected ways: the audience supplying a liberal amount of sympathy and imagination: and even the most accomplished contributions kept modest and self-effacing. It's a deceptively lumbering production, and not an inappropriate one. Aladdin in Three Acts is Mayer's wise and innocent paean...
...less thoughtful hands the tale of Aladdin has been a dandy thriller, "an adolescent's dream of revenge," as Mayer points out in a program note. But Mayer eliminates much of the suspense: Aladdin's difficulties are solved handily by two genies, and the lad swiftly and stoically executes the evil magician, who has been drugged by the Princess. So what's the point? Aladdin, the Sultan explains at the end of the play, got lucky. But he measured up to his luck, he gave it a good home. Throughout the play. Aladdin's spirit is large and independent enough...
...entry: Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, who last week wheeled into Hollywood in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith II and made a cash offer of almost $800 million for the company. If the bid succeeds, Fox would become the first major studio since the days of Louis Mayer and the Warner brothers, more than 40 years ago, to be ruled as a personal fief...
From Manhattan came Detective Charles Nanton; from Oakland, Calif., Sergeant Alexander Smith. The detective credited with solving the seven "Merritt Parkway Bra" murders in Stamford, Conn., Lieutenant George Mayer, arrived. Detroit police lent the services of Lieutenant Gilbert Hill, who cleared up the "Browning Gang" case that had claimed 15 victims. And out of retirement came Captain Pierce Brooks, who caught the killers of a Los Angeles policeman in the celebrated "Onion Field" case...
...Mayer said the school has already "set a precedent of allowing students to tax themselves on term bills for student government...