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...outstanding offender is the book. The show offers less a new version than a misguided variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing...
...musical-comedy performance that prevailed in the expansive '30's, and which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield as Mercury and Barbara Ashley as a Chloe, a Grecian lass. William Eythe and Priscilla Gilette, as the American newlyweds are pleasant but not especially brilliant...
...signees included full professors Finley, Butler, Cole, Emerson, Forbes Fay, Frazier, Gamble, Greene, Haring, Hocking, Howe, Jones, Kelley, Mather, Matthiessen, Merk, Pease, Redfield, Reld Rulon, Schlesinger, Shapley, Singletes, Smith, Starck, Terzaghi, and Wald
...doubt so glittering a villain helps flatten out the hero: actually, however, Montserrat (William Redfield) is flat in himself and pretty unconvincing in his selflessness. Yet, without carrying conviction as a man, he might still-had the play backed him up-have stirred the imagination as a hero. But the play lacks the simple intensity of heroic drama; it shares its villain's love of tricks, and is too full of jagged effects to produce a sustained emotion...
Test Case. In Renton, Wash., explaining that he did not want to knock at a neighbor's door to see if his brother and sister were inside, Roy M. Redfield, 18, admitted setting fire to the barn "so I could tell when everyone...