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...Aiken was talking about all modest business proprietors, had no particular Mrs. Murphy in mind. Indeed, near his own home town of Putney, the rooming-house operator most closely meeting his definition is a Mrs. Carl Underwood, 78, whose $5-a-night place can lodge 18 at a time. * Last August, however, cloture was invoked against a handful of liberal Democratic Senators filibustering against an Administration bill to establish a communications satellite corporation owned partly by private interests...
...conceivably be guilty of the crime for which he stands condemned. Presumably he hopes to play Hamlet some day; meanwhile he might blow his nose--and get into something roomier than the shockingly indecent tights he has been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger...
...gets a chance to have a summa," and a Groton-and-unspecified-club archetype named Peter, who calls himself the "narrative thread" of the show (it is a bald-faced lie). Several of these people have girls: Wilson a fresh-faced intense type, who could have graduated only from Putney; and Mike a pancake-faced, blase' type, who could have come from anywhere. Peter has none; he is going to go to Law School...
...performance, I wish I could say nothing. The direction, by a gentleman whom, for purpose of argument, I'll call George Spelvin, was not visible to the naked eye, and the acting, with three exceptions, was atrocious. The three were Ellen Jameson (Wilson's girl, Scarlett) who, a Putney girl herself, managed to give her ingenue role a certain amount of real emotion; Susan Stockard (Peter's sister Suzy), who plays a too-much-too-soon high school girl with wacky charm; and Pete Foster, a Leverett House janitor, whose impersonation of himself is a stroke of consummate artistry...
...Brahms vowed he would include in his ninth symphony, achieved any degree of balance or emotion, and even then it was not Mr. Schenck's doing: the orchestra's principal oboist, Eliott Noyes, and its principal cellist, Clarke Slater, (both of whom received their musical training at Vermont's Putney School) were chiefly responsible for this transient success...