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Young Alan Howard is appealing as Falstaff's page, especially when he vainly tries to conceal his master behind his tiny slip of a body. Paul Sparer brings a comically expressive face and drawn-out speech ("Jee-ee-su [long pause], dead!") to the senile Justice Shallow, but Patrick Hines overdoes his trembling and doddering companion Justice Silence...
Thus last week in a courtroom in Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, ended the 14-day trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend. They had been charged with killing 17-year-old Edward Evans and two children whose bodies they buried in shallow graves on the moors near Manchester. For the prosecution, Britain's Attorney General Sir Elwyn Jones called 40 witnesses to the stand. The killings were all marked by what Sir Elwyn called "a perverted sexual element." The defendants, he charged, took special care to preserve mementos of the crimes...
...dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...
...missing contrast between Dionysus and Xanthias is resoundingly present between Aeschylus and Euripides. Allman's craggy, dignified Aeschylus plays off nicely against Popovich's sleek, shallow Euripides. Even though the debate sometimes bogs down, the philosopher and the quibbler are never confused as are the master and the servant...
Touch's family is made up of dull, joke-cracking father Jack; shallow, bourgeois mother Ruth; precocious and sensitive son Tom (he's just won a national English contest); and maiden but equally sensitive aunt Emily. The action of the play centers around bringing Tom and Emily together, breaking down the walls of alienation which are physically represented by their separate garret-like rooms. Emily speaks to Tom only through monologues into a tape recorder, a device which Mr. Schwartz uses to great advantage...