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...drizzling night in Manchester, the two sides collide at a debate over Act 60. Faced with the elderly couple who say they will have to dip into retirement savings to pay taxes and the brothers who say they will have to close the family inn, state senator Peter Shumlin, an Act 60 advocate, takes the high-minded approach. "It's your responsibility as Vermonters to educate all our kids," he says. But later he growls at his opponent, "I don't blame you for not liking Act 60. You had a great deal, and it's coming...
...people of Vermont sort out whether the benefits of Act 60 were worth all the turmoil. But John Irving, for one, is not waiting around to find out. He's starting up his own private school--and stealing the principal away from the private academy where state senator Shumlin sends his kids. "My response is as brutally upper class as I can make it," says Irving. "I'm not putting my child in an underfunded public school system." If he can't get his new school up and running, says Irving, "I'm moving out of here...
WESTPORT, CONN. Country Playhouse. Hans Conried plays a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters both the boon and bane of his existence in Herman Shumlin's Spofford, a cut-down version of Peter De Vries' novel, Reuben, Reuben...
SPOFFORD. Playwright-Director Herman Shumlin has performed an autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life...
...world who would ever conquer Broadway. Shy and alarmingly thin, he had a bleeding ulcer and shed "a faint greenish glow." But he was shrewd, and he decided to case the joint before he tried to take it over. One day he called on Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and invested $5,000 in The Male Animal. Merrick made $18,000 on the deal, and by watching rehearsals and eavesdropping on conferences he also accumulated valuable experience. Six years later, after co-producing two turkeys (The Willow and I, Bright Boy), he signed on as Shumlin's general manager...