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This play, written by one of twentieth century Europe's best playwrights, is an excellent blend of German dramatic verse, pure theatre, and colorful pageantry, and should be well worth seeing even without a knowledge of German. Completed in 1911, it was first produced in Berlin by Max Rheinhardt, Germany's Cecil B. De Mille, with tremendous success. Its greatness as a play as well as the freshness and pertinence of what it had to say made it instantly popular, and it was subsequently performed every year on the steps of the Cathedral at Salzburg as a sort of dramatic...
...into the big, clean American sound of WUSA, the sound of a decent generation." The disk jockey is a drunken, apolitical animal named Rheinhardt (Paul Newman), whose job is to plug crypto-fascism for good ole WUSA, a right-wing New Orleans radio station. By night he delivers his spiel under the heel of the station's jackboot-minded owner (Pat Hingle). By day he wallows in booze and self-pity ("I had it made and I woke up one morning, I looked down and fell off my life") in the arms of his pathetic paramour, a hooker named...
Having saddled themselves with Stuart Rosenberg's direction, the Newmans wander through a series of disconnected episodes. While rising to radio preeminence, Rheinhardt is plagued by the do-good blandishments of a social worker named Rainey (Anthony Perkins), who is taking a welfare survey in New Orleans' black slums. Rheinhardt underscores Rainey's presence by calling him a "cornpone Christ." Sure enough, Rainey falls to bloody martyrdom in a contemporary Pilate's court-a barbaric red, white and blue rally sponsored by WUSA. Geraldine's symbolic vulnerability propels her to suicide, while Rheinhardt...
...interested in the novelistic possibilities of poverty and despair. This and the following two books, A Glance Away and The W.A.S.P., all deal in their own way with life in the slums. A Hall of Mirrors' three main characters slide along the rim of vagrancy in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is an alcoholic disk jockey who relies on soup kitchens for survival; his adoring girl friend has a look that makes cops mistake her for a prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets by the very people he is trying to help...
Kirkland led in the House Sculls yesterday with a win in the singles by Peter Lord, and another in the comps by Nick Rheinhardt, John Hart won the senior singles for Dunster, while Don Kennedy won the wherries for Winthrop...