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Besides Miss Firth and Rosen, I liked Richard Cooke, as a henchman of the demagogic Southern senator who wants to dispossess the poor but tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
...Mute Fruit. Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia recently stopped a performance in Chicago, whipped out an enormous handkerchief, and honked and wheezed along with the audience. Jascha Heifetz prefers the withering glare or, if things get too bad, departure. The late Sir Thomas Beecham was even less subtle, once whirled on the podium and roared: "Shut up, you fools...
Makes the stadium mute...
...this makes the Deacons sound like a gang of mute hoodlums, and Charles Sims like the czar of the underworld, it shouldn't. Bogalusa is a strange town, a mean town; the niceties of non-violence seem inappropriate in a place where half the cars fly rebel flags and the radio station announces Klan rallies as though they were church picnics...
...hundreds of stalled elevators, office workers hung tremulously between earth and sky. Traffic lights failed; main arteries snarled. Hundreds of drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory?with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...