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...visiting Russians showed further examples of Russian thoroughness. They had brought along their own doctor, interpreter, a full group of advisers, and a watchful, poker-faced man listed as a state supervisor. Outnumbered, but seldom outmaneuvered, Polish-born Sam Reshevsky put up a game fight. At the double round-robin tournament's halfway mark, he was in the No. 2 spot, behind Russia's Vassily Smyslov, a 32-year-old language student from Moscow...
...Robin Homet, as Professor Tommy Turner, is called upon to be drunk, to be eloquent, to be amorous. Homet not only handles all these individual assignments excellently, he ties them into a sharp, consistent characterization. Too often actors playing the crusading professor let the wit of authors James Thurber and Elliot Nugent carry scenes for them. In Homet's battle with liquor in the second act, however, there is no coasting. It is his highest point in an evening of good touches...
...basic question is not the trite old "Who Killed Cock Robin?" but the more modern "Am I the Sparrow?" The hero (Ralph Richardson) is a white-collar Briton who comes chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...
...ignoring them, they felt, why should they not at least partly ignore the public's moral prohibitions? It is no wonder, then, that the Al of L should have such trouble shaking locals off the International Longshoreman's tree, for the present union leaders appear to the workers veritable Robin Hoods...
Featured in the cast are Robin Homet '54 as Tommy Turner, the bewildered English professor; Pirie M. Tuchings '54 as Joe Ferguson, the big brash football hero; Tom Gaydos '54 as Ed Keller; Wendy Goodell as Ellen Turner and Lucy Barry as Patricia Turner. Director will be Ted Gershuny '54 and Peter L. Shoup '55 will produce the show...