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Without Wheeler's superb actions, the play's tone of voice would not, of course, have rung so clear. The Smiths and the Martins establish the overly articulated diction of the whole play, but the abyss of the inane is never fully plumbed until Paul B. Price enters as the Firechief. He has come to put out a fire and finds instead the girl (the maid) who first put out his fires. He stays to bore the company with astonishing narratives. Price delivers his monologues as a child would; his manner is everyman's who comes for fire and stays...
Like few other comedians, he can function as master of ceremonies before a dinner of titans and financiers and never seem to be just a fast-talking gagman rung in for the night. He carries off that sort of thing with an offhand assurance that suggests he's really one of the big tycoons who just happened to take the podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California...
...describes a boy's slow ascent, in response to a dare, up a ladder on the outside of a six-story gas tower. The farther he climbs, the more terrified he becomes of the heaving ground below. When he reaches the top, he discovers that the last dozen rungs are missing. The dislocation he feels-suspended between earth and air, past and future-suggests those other climbers of various social structures who fear to edge their way down but who can never quite find room at the top. Sansom leaves his climber clinging to the uppermost rung, "shivering...
Room for Bloom. The new way, geared to individual differences, is to banish formal grades and group children according to performance. Instead of grades one to six. Maple Park confronts a child with a ig-rung ladder-19 "levels"' of scholastic achievement. The object is to let the child climb at his own pace, moving from one level to the next not by a fixed calendar but according to his achievement. He is always in a homogeneous class of the same general ability, even though the other children may be younger or older...