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...idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian debuts, Granville Barker is being ballyhooed by Shaw Festival artistic director Christopher Newton as "maybe the last undiscovered great playwright...
...Destiny). A full-length work, Waste or His Majesty, will appear the season after. The Shaw Festival's resurrection began with The Voysey Inheritance in 1988. It has since been mounted by Britain's Royal National Theatre and the Long Wharf Theatre, in New Haven, Connecticut. Says Newton: "It took me a few years to realize what...
...Ontario, not least because an institution dedicated to Shaw sounds less prestigious than one devoted to Shakespeare. The best of this season's work, however, is competitive with that of any resident troupe in North America. For Shaw fans there is a splendid if deeply conventional Candida, staged by Newton and starring the estimable Seana McKenna, formerly a jewel of Stratford, plus a novel Saint Joan that turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen...
Late last week Clinton's team was concentrating its fire on Richard Bryan of Nevada and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin. Worried about the impact that limited deductions for entertainment would have on Nevada's casinos, conferees wrestled with an exemption on "live entertainment" that they dubbed the "Wayne Newton provision." Kohl, who wanted more tax cuts and incentives for business, dined at the White House last Thursday night but was surprised to find that Clinton didn't ask him for his vote. "There was not a word said about the budget bill," said Lieberman, who attended the same dinner...
...transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer's similar Newton model and Motorola's Dragon. To celebrate, Warwick gave the team that developed the Hobbit a symbolic gift: a desk clock. "It was to remind us that we received our wake-up call," he says...