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Although he is too gaunt and spindle shacked a figure to impress as the perfect Hamlet, Eliot Duvey handles one of Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...
...McCarran, which would establish the "chosen instrument," or federally regulated "community company." Such a bill would also mean the end of Pan Am as an operating agency. But Pan Am's equipment and know-how would form the nucleus of any postwar U.S. combine-at least at the outset...
...scene is a workers' club in a slum rife with Jack-the-Ripper murders; the stranger is an egotistical, foreign-born young cobbler (Eduard Franz) who is suspected of committing them. But from the outset he is made to seem so guilty that you never for a second doubt his innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling...
...From the outset, defeat seemed in store for the Crimson. After ten minutes of play with the visitors already trailing the P.T. men, Stahl's regulars arrived on the scehe to rush into the fray with nary a practice shot. They started slow and never quite hit their stride all evening. Melville picked up a seven point advantage in the first two periods and keeping to their fast pace in the closing stanzas, nearly doubled their lead...
...outset the Tories were confident. With Garfield Case, three-term Mayor of Owen Sound (pop. 14,000) in the field against McNaughton, they felt they could pick up enough dissident Liberal votes to win. But last week the situation abruptly changed. The Socialist CCFers picked a candidate of their own: Manitoba-born Albert Earl Godfrey...