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...realistic at all, but just a slice off the top of existence. Writing a realistic play is like meeting a human being for the first time. The realist would observe that this is Mr. So-and-So, that he has a beard and an accent and a mole on his face. But the human being is far more peculiar, something that has gone on since the beginning of time, now miraculously summed up in the strange sort of mysterious creature that stands before...
...Paris, Naundorff was a down-at-heel beggar. But he found an important champion. The lost Dauphin's old governess had come to scoff at the beggar's claims, but when she saw his prominent front teeth, the triangular vaccination on his arm and the pigeon-shaped mole of Louis Bourbon on Naundorff's thigh, she became convinced that he was the Dauphin. Naundorff even had a scar on his upper lip like that which the imprisoned Dauphin had got from the bite of an angry rabbit; the Dauphin had screamed the era's worst insult...
...game ended when Michel climbed to the top of the church to pull down its shaky cross. He fell, but only Paulette saw him fall. A little later, his family stumbled across the children's miniature cemetery, with its crosses labeled "Mole," "Rat," "Lizard," "3 Ladybirds," "15 Ants," "6 Flies." They did not think to look for Michel under the largest cross of all, the one from the church, where Paulette had buried him before wandering away...
...reassessment, if the J.C.S. followed Sherman, and for that matter, Airman Vandenberg, would mean the end of the concept of the "balanced force"-at least insofar as it operated on the "a-pistol-for-Mole, a-pistol-for-Badger, a-pistol-for-Rat" three-way even split of the defense dollar. It would probably mean a bigger Air Force and a bigger Navy, a smaller share for the Army...
...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...