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...many ways it is Marlowe's maturest piece of writing; certainly it is his most interesting piece of stagecraft. For the play moves becautifully through the complicated tragedy of the weak king Edward, employing a large--though never bulky--cast of scoundrel lords and scurrilous peasantry. Indeed, in its pageant and scheme, the play resembles nothing so much as Shakespeare's own "Richard II." Edward, like Richard, is a king devoted more to his own pleasures than to ruling, and while England goes noisily to hell, he frolics with his minions. The rhetoric of the play, unlike that of "Richard...
...where the soliloquies and quieter moments are introduced, begins too slowly and never regains its earlier momentum until Edward's death scene. The lighting is less effective than it might have been and is at one of two points puzzling. Music, however, is used to good advantage in the pageant scenes, and Hamlin's blocking almost provides the action itself...
...Well he might have. Baker had long since begun to maneuver outside the Senate as well as in the cloakrooms. For one thing, he had acquired Carole Tyler as his secretary. Back home in Tennessee, she had won a "Miss Loudon County" award, and she was a natural beauty-pageant type -35-26-35. Daughter of a Lenoir City dry-cleaning plant operator, Carole arrived in Washington in 1959, three years later was Baker's private secretary and confidante. As the former she received $8,000 a year, as the latter a lot of laughs and good times. When...
...megalithic splendor. What Moses saw, however, was not the Fair and the 70 million visitors who would come to gape and ache and learn during the next two years. He saw what would remain after the last hot dog had been sold, the last blister soothed, and the last pageant had hung up its costumes...
TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE AND PAGEANT (NBC and CBS, 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.).* Color...