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Jackie Mason is a 32-year-old rabbi who has given up the temple and now tells jokes with a message. Too often the message scrapes through, but the humor does not. He is a dedicated slayer of cliche philosophies. "Don't change horses in midstream," he scoffs. "Did you ever take two horses into the middle of a stream? That is stupid in itself. But I tried it, and you know, the second one was better." Somebody digs. Mason gets top bookings...
Robert L. Joseph adapted Boulle's noved for stage presentation, and he has not done an altogether satisfactory job. Too many of the characters are shockingly inconsistent, changing horses in midstream without even getting their feet wet. A number of extraneous considerations, notably the Negro problem in the South, are mercilessly appropriated to fill gaps in continuity...
...talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen's eyes and ears as the two traveled the world to encourage 'and teach the blind and handicapped. Polly helped Helen write My Religion, Midstream-My Later Life, and many articles and poems, served as finger translator when Helen interviewed India's Prime Minister Nehru and President Eisenhower, even went with Helen and described to her movies, plays and football games. Said Helen, 79, when Polly died: "I can only pray that she may soon...
Provincetown, Mass., Playhouse: Lovers in Midstream, a new play by William D. Roberts...
...charge, however, is the assertion that we are suffering from an Identity Crisis. What this is exactly is explained by Sara Dakin (co-editor of Gadfly) in her laboriously symbolic essay, "Pig." At the price of trying to write on six levels of meaning, and, after switching metaphors in midstream, she says, "All pigs wander through this limbo period, constantly asking themselves "Who am I?' and 'What is my place in the pen?' This. . . we described as undergoing an identity crisis...