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This decidedly common touch is in keeping with Director Brian Murray's sour vision. At the center of Blithe Spirit is a love triangle: smug, conventional Ruth Condomine (Ivey) is in love with her novelist husband Charles (Chamberlain); so is hoydenish Elvira (Danner), his late wife, whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Down-to-Earth Happy Medium: BLITHE SPIRIT | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...making Charles, normally a beau ideal, just as petty as his wives, Murray helps diffuse the unattractive misogyny shot through virtually all of Coward's works. Still, this intelligent approach baffles some theatergoers and irritates others. It muffles many of the play's laughs and, more troublesome at the box office, keeps Chamberlain from maximizing his easy charm. Yet audiences who come to see him may depart delighted at having seen Page in full cry, sloshing her drinks onto people, cramming her mouth with sandwiches, then abruptly divining where her seance went wrong with a fierce delight that would surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Down-to-Earth Happy Medium: BLITHE SPIRIT | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...housing system must allow for this," says Murray Burk director of student housing at Dartmouth. He says that it was not uncommon for student to live in as many as six different rooms during their four years at the school...

Author: By John P. Stanley, | Title: Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place... | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson, Tom Aucamp shot a 74, which was the second-best score of the day. Terry Murray (76), Doug Albrecht (76), John Beizer (83) and Pat Barry (83) rounded out the scoring for the Crimson...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Golf Third at HYPs | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

...Benson 45 0 20 20 34 76 Scott Dub 44 11 8 19 34 79 Russ Parent 45 2 16 18 21 50 Mike LaMoine 45 2 16 18 18 36 Brent Bobyck 44 6 11 17 8 16 Grant Paranica 40 5 10 15 18 36 Murray Baron 39 3 10 13 30 60 Jeff Bowen 43 5 7 12 17 42 Tarek Howard 32 1 9 10 19 38 Bill Claviter 20 2 2 4 5 10 Darryn Fossand 14 1 2 3 4 8 Ed Belfour 32 0 2 2 3 6 Gary Kaiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: North Dakota Hockey (38-8-0 overall, 29-6 WCHA) | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

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