Word: pertzoff
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...wonderfully plastic set designed by Alexander Pertzoff reduces the awkwardness of frequent scene changes. The same technical skill appears in the music, costumes, and artwork...
...seem forced. I have a similar quarrel with Harriet Roger's Grandma. Wriggling, swaying, and stooping after a while become obvious devices, but still Mrs. Roger has an excellent sense of timing, and her Grandma is thoroughly likable. Jean Comstock turns in a creditable performance as Mrs. Barker. Alexander Pertzoff's set is obviously the one Albee intended for his play. The frankfurter sofa, the hamburger easy chair, and the malted milk end table are wonderfully ingenious and seem perfectly natural...
...clearly expended a great deal of energy on this production. Dustin Hoffman as Clov, Frank Cassidy as Hamm, and Jerry Gershman and Naomi Thornton as Nagg and Nell all act with discipline and tact in a play that tempts them to noise and ranting. The set, by Alexander Pertzoff, is properly absurd. And David Wheeler's direction perfectly exploits the strength of this kind of theater. Experiencing Endgame is in a way like walking into the monastery chapel a few blocks down from Eliot House: we are thrown into another world and made to forget for a moment old sets...
...Continent before the war, organized a national road-plan exhibit for the Royal Institute of British Architects, is now studying U.S. city problems on a grant from the American Philosophical Society. His collaborators are his wife-a physicist teaching at Queens College-and a Harvard architect, Constantin Pertzoff...
...frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...