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...nonpartisan reform slate for the Phoenix city council. He won, helped set up a successful city-manager system and, among other things, was largely responsible for racial integration of the restaurant at the Phoenix airport. A year later, he managed the victorious gubernatorial campaign of his Republican friend Howard Pyle, and in 1952 he decided to run for the U.S. Senate. Goldwater beat Ernest MacFarland, the Senate's Democratic majority leader, by 7,000 votes. But Barry had no illusions about his victory: with Eisenhower at the top of the ticket, he was "the greatest coattail rider...
...Smith's Agamemnon and Nicholas Pyle's Aegisthus provide fine support for Miss Tolentino, but the only character not overshadowed by her is Cassandra. Laura Esterman's tormented writhing and her cries of anguish are immensely moving; later she reappears as a quieter but equally impressive Electra...
...tiresome in his buffoonery: his eating scene at the beginning of the third act, however, is a wonderful replica of Squire Western's gluttony in Tom Jones. Lucian Russel, as Odario, sprinkles an appalling covetousness into the otherwise romantic script, grabbing for jewels and selling his lovely daughter. Randy Pyle, who plays the ghost of Steckel's father, conveys slightly more the circus clown parodying Hamlet than the spectre, although he fits both parts equally well...
...father, the noted illustrator N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, originally settled in Chadds Ford to study with Howard Pyle. When young Andy showed signs of talent in his early teens, his father began to teach him every secret of technique he knew, but he never sought to impose his own style. "My father," says Wyeth, "was a great teacher because he would never talk about how he would do anything. He would always talk about the object and the quality of that object. He might make you see the depth of the object, not how it should be painted...
...more sapient director might have restrained Kendra Stearns (Mae) from overacting quite so much, but it is difficult to see what anyone could have done with Gooper (Robert Higgins) or Doctor Baugh (Nick Pyle), except perhaps not casting them. John van Sickle, on the other hand, was quite adequate as Reverend Tooker...