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...somewhat Galsworthian catastrophe forces George to the first commitment of his life. His cheerful young niece is got with child by, of all things, a plumber's helper. He decides he must help her. He concludes that the only way is to kill himself so that the girl will get his small nugget of otherwise untouchable capital. But he drinks too much and his ten-gin resolve to die dissolves into a sentimental 20-gin binge...
Also on display: Farmer Miles Blair, 53, who spends most of his time writing letters urging closer ties with Portugal and South Africa and none at all with the U.S.; and David ("Screaming Lord") Sutch, a 22-year-old plumber's helper turned rock-'n'-roll singer, who called for a better deal for Britain's teenagers, though by law they are not permitted to vote for him, and affrighted Stratford-upon-Avon by campaigning in top hat and tails. "What," he asked disdainfully, "has Hamlet done for you lately...
Since the only way to get to be a working plumber or plasterer in New York City is to join the appropriate union as an apprentice, few Negroes learn the building trades. Before there can be jobs for Negro plumbers, there must be Negro plumbers. When a building trades official asked Negro leaders to supply a list of skilled Negro building-trades workers who were looking for jobs, nobody, it appeared, had any such list. It was impossible for the moment to tell whether the construction-site demonstrations had really opened any doors, because there appeared to be nobody waiting...
...theoreticians were happy at the turn of events, but many other Yugoslavs were not. They found it virtually impossible in some areas to obtain the services of a plumber or electrician. To get a pair of shoes repaired today takes a month. Belgrade's famed candy and pastry shops are nearly all closed, and the state-baked pita-a Serbian pastry filled with fruit-is no edible substitute...
...scene only, at the headquarters of a revolutionary cell. The scene itself is slow and partially irrelevant to the whole play; Genet changed it radically for the second French edition. Nevertheless, William Hart is very repellent (as he should be) as Armand, the Hood. But Marcus Powell (Roger the Plumber) speaks as if he memorized words by rote from a foreign language...