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...swift price rise lined the pockets of many speculators; one corn-pit operative made $500,000 in paper profits. Many farmers face severe financial reverses. Sadly surveying the infestation of the 600 acres of corn that he and his son are raising in Indiana's Gibson County, Melvin Pflug, 52, estimates that only half of it will be worth harvesting. "We'll be lucky if we have enough corn to pay our fertilizer bill," he said...
...Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted in the first act. And Suzanne Sato's wonderful costumes are more convincing than those in any other period piece I've seen...
...drunk quite a lot that day-a dozen beers and some wine, his buddies said. After dark, Adams and two companions sneaked into the Portland, Ore., zoo. He lowered himself into the grizzly bear's grotto, but the bear ignored him. He climbed out and tried the pit occupied by two lions, Caesar and Sis. Sis lunged at Adams, catching him by the feet. He died of a punctured jugular vein...
...court-martial scene is, in fact, by far the choicest in the play, and it affords Shaw plenty of opportunity to poke fun at a good many targets, and to pit the witty intelligences of Dick and Gen. Burgoyne against each other. Shaw gives Burgoyne the wittiest lines in the play, and Cyril Ritchard is the ideal man to deliver them with all the Wildean elegance and aristocratic punctilio they deserve. Ritchard's comic timing is superb, and when he gets all his lines learned he will be unsurpassable in the part...
Somewhat more expensive than the aforementioned are our final group. The Wursthaus (4 Boylston St.) has German American food and crowded atmosphere. The Toga (Mass Ave. by Briggs and Briggs) has sandwiches and above, of basic American variety. Buddy's Sirloin Pit (Brattle St. across from the Theatre) is just what the name implies. Charley's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.) plays the Red Sox games on the radio and has good sandwiches. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is also good...