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Plaintiff's counsel in the Salem case has charged that the authorities failed to make a satisfactory search for the deceased's relatives, of whom several were alive. He also alleges several other irregularities in procedure...
...Medical School has instructed its counsel to follow closely the progress of a pending Salem lawsuit whose outcome may seriously curtail the School's supply of cadavers for student dissection...
...action, a Salem woman is suing an undertaker for $10,000 damages, charging that he took the corpse of her brother, an inmate of a State mental hospital, and delivered it to a Professor of Anatomy at the Boston University School of Medicine for dissection by students. Suits have also been threatened against the hospital superintendent and the Boston University School of Medicine...
This is not to say that The Gospel Witch is monotonous, but that it demands too much both of audience and actors. Set in the Salem of 1692, its theme is the release of the tensions of an introverted Puritanism in the creation and destruction of an unreal danger. Specifically, it deals with a young girl's accusations of witchcraft against a strong minded farmer's wife, and the implications of the case for the community and the individuals involved. The subject is temptingly rich, and Mr. Phelps has not been able to resist over-entanglement in the moral coils...
Although it is often a great asset in conveying this painful confusion and the emotional entanglements of the characters to the audience, the theatre-in-the-round format is a mixed blessing. It is superbly adapted to the examination in which the audience finds itself inside the Salem meeting house; but the last scene is considerably marred by lack of the finality that a drawn curtain could rectify, and set changes are unduly disturbing throughout...