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...Boone 16 RH Chuck Reed 82 FB Bill Grana 84 COLUMBIA LE Walter Congram 87 LT Bob Asack 76 LG Bill Campbell 67 C Lee Black 55 RG Anthony Day 60 RT Edward Little 79 RE Dick Hassan 86 QB Tom Vasell 16 LH Tom Huggerty 21 RH Ruse Warren 44 FB Tom O'Conner...
...gave him the skills to shatter completely the culinary arts. The audience is now at arm's length, and the actors can themselves glide from impersonations, now assuming a new role (as Galy Gay, the soldiers' victim, is made to). then to be suddenly exposed (as is the soldiers' ruse, a fake elephant named Billy Hamph...
...case of William Faulkner is more baffling, since those involuted, parenthesis-clogged sentences at times make the greatest tragedian of modern U.S. letters seem barely literate. For an artist of Faulkner's high purpose, the canebrake confusion of manner can only be deliberate-an esthetic and philosophic ruse to exclude reason from the genetic and historical workings of man's fate. Peter De Vries's brilliant parody takes account of this and gives fair warning to those who attempt to write Sartoris Resartus; it may be easy to fake the Spanish moss but not the tree...
...vicious characters, jailers and jailed, are often splendid company, though the protagonist, who calls himself Count La Ruse, is bedeviled by his author's insistence that, like the Pirates of Penzance, he is an authentic and fundamentally virtuous nobleman "who has gone wrong." His vis-a-vis, the jailer's daughter, is a salty bit of mutton, a lively dollop of trollop, when she is not made to work at it too hard. Other scoundrels are beautifully done, notably an ineffable poisoner who comes at first glance amazingly close to success in his function of representing Unashamed Ultimate Evil...
Louis Edmonds makes an impressive figure of the pivotal peculator Count La Ruse. His control and taste lapse only at rare moments, and he has considerable authority, elegance, and brio besides. As his mistress and nemesis, Robin Howard is asked to cope with a part that calls for the sort of compelling distinction that Siobhan McKenna and Colleen Dewhurst and very few others can command. On this level Miss Howard simply hasn't got it, but she is a competent actress with a splendid pair of shoulders. Lee Henry is similarly undefinitive but competent as Ultimate Evil. Arthur Malet cannot...