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...morality of the second is both superficial and amusing. This fantasy Smith: A Masque by Alison Lurie describes the dilemna of a young graduate who must choose a life's work. The graduate played by Tom Kennedy must select among Junno and wealth, Venus and artistic fame or Minerva and scholarship. Smith an obstinate fellow will have none of them and the goddesses immediately dispatch him to points unmentionable. Despite an overlong ending, the performance is thoroughly enjoyable...
...staff of diplomatically trained clergy will be the task of an institution of learning that is 250 years old this year-the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. Though it has turned out four popes, 98 cardinals and 42 papal nuncios since it opened in 1701, the academy on the Piazza della Minerva has had a checkered career. Three times popes have seen fit to close it. In 1829 a contemporary chronicler wrote: "If in the city or in some fashionable salon you meet a young man wearing perfumed ecclesiastical garb and whose hair is much pomaded and who shows other outward signs...
...tells of young Minerva Pinney (Marsha Hunt), who quarrels with the arrogant young writer (Tom Helmore) she is living with in Greenwich Village, and goes back to her New England home. Descendant of a Revolutionary War heroine who once detained General Howe for four days-whether from passion or patriotism-Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town. She gets even more involved when the young writer turns up. The play gets most involved of all trying to keep afloat...
France--Elizabeth Gallaher, Marion Henderson, Marie Johnson, Miss Melchior, Denise Otis, Elizabeth Salmon, and Margery Ann Williams; Greece--Eve Catagygiotu; Italy--Joan C. Capeci and Minerva Pinell; the Netherlands--Elizabeth J. Weichel; Norway--Dorothy J. Burton; and the United Kingdom--Doris V. Evans and Isabel E. Gamble...
...PARISO Minerva, Ohio...