Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Joel Schwartz did what he could with the script, and all things considered, he did a lot. Judged professionally, House Afire would rate low grade B, but the production is meant to entertain, and it does so beautifully...
...heavy favorite in the meet is defending champion Columbia, strong in all three weapons. Captain Ian Fries in the epee and sensational sophomore Steve Weinstein in the foll are especially powerful. Cornell's Ronny Schwartz, the Ivy League's top foll fencer two years in a row is also a threat, and a strong N.Y.U. squad can't be counted...
...Jewbird tells of a talking bird named Schwartz, who flies into the Lower East Side apartment of Salesman Harry Cohen, seeking refuge from the "anti-Semeets" (eagles, vultures and hawks who pick out the eyes of other birds). Schwartz settles down, helps Cohen's small son with his lessons, and reads him comics when the boy is sick. But Cohen cannot stand the bird, finally drives him out into the winter snow. In the spring the boy finds him in a lot, both eyes plucked clean, presumably by "anti-Semeets...
...Howard Dietz-Arthur Schwartz score induces instant amnesia, except for the perky lilt behind the simpleton lyrics of High Is Better Than Low. Choreographer Matt Mattox's best dance number, Sauce Diable, seems to have crashed the show from some other musical, and Director Vincent J. Donehue's overall pacing is poky...
...Schwartz's team drew blood samples from 57 members of the leukemia victims' families, and from 52 people who were not known to have leukemia and were not known to have been exposed to it. None of the normal comparison subjects had antibody that could be linked with the suspected leukemia virus. But 19 of the parents, brothers and sisters of leukemia victims did have antibody. More of them may have had it, Dr. Schwartz believes, in tiny, undetectable amounts...