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...other actors tend to pall a little beside Loeb, but nearly all of them redeem themselves in the truly funny final scene. Here Edith Iselin, as Portia, and Paul Schmidt, as Bassanio, lose their initial remoteness and become recognizable as lovers. Jean Loud, in the part of Nerissa, is charming throughout, gaining stature as the play progresses. As Launcelot Gobbo, a clown, Michael Pollatsek injects some humor into the early scenes by cleverly contrived pomposity and overacting. Ernest Eugene Pell, on the other hand, gives a somewhat too unobtrusive, if competent, performance as Antonio, the Merchant. Yet the only serious...
DEAD STORAGE, by George Bagby (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75), describes in repellent detail the last hours of a prosperous pimp, and introduces as ugly a set of murder suspects as the season has offered. The case is tackled by Inspector Schmidt of New York Homicide, whose homey habit of taking off his pinching shoes in moments of stress somehow makes the sordid details of the crime seem more wholesome...
...second time in three years no U.S. tennis player was good enough to get to the finals of the National Indoor Tennis championships. Playing the best tennis of his career, Sweden's young Ulf Schmidt upset his countryman Sven Davidson (1954's winner) in Manhattan...
Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children...
Power of Positive Suggestion. In Los Angeles, arresting Printer Glenard E. Schmidt for masterminding a gang that tried to pass $350,000 in phony $20 bills, Secret Service men found in his auto a picture of a man industriously turning out $20 bills captioned: "Counterfeiters? No, but our presses can make money...