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This fall, however, the Harvard Drama Review has made its escape from the domination of the stapler into a slick-paper format, written and assembled at greater leisure. Joel Silverstein, the editor, has put together the most intelligent collection of critics any of these magazines has ever had, and the reviews, though still erratic, have been far better on the average...
...best thing about the magazine has been its departure from the traditional review-on-review format. In his first two issues, Silverstein has assembled an original play, and two long analyses of Jean-Lue Godard's recent films. Silverstein says that the future issues will contain more scripts and more reflective articles...
...captivates, first, by way of practice, a male fly, and then the Clerk (Charles Degelman), the Vice President (Peter C. Johnson), the Directors (Peter E. Johnson, Joel Silverstein, and Henry Lanier), and finally the President (Arthur Friedman). Each gave way in splendidly individual fashion...
Director Elliot Silverstein, freshly sprung from television, sows this wild-oater with all manner of trickery, and most of it works-from speeded-up chase sequences to an entr'acte by a pair of banjo-banging troubadours (Stubby Kaye and the late Nat King Cole) who stroll improbably from scene to scene, keeping the flimsy narrative intact with snatches of song. In a performance that nails down her reputation as a girl worth singing about, Actress Fonda does every preposterous thing demanded of her with a giddy sincerity that is at once beguiling, poignant and hilarious. Wearing widow...
...Silverstein and his delicatessen have since passed into oblivion. But Charles Harting Percy did not. He applied himself, worked hard and persevered, and by dint of luck and pluck became a wealthy, successful businessman who is now the Republican candidate for Governor in his home state of Illinois, and-who knows?-may become something even bigger before he turns 50. To this day, Percy recalls his conversation with Mr. Silverstein. "I've never forgotten this," he says, "because he was right. It's fun working when you're working for yourself. Having your own equity, working your...