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Last week, as banana boats were leisurely unloaded near by, U.S. military commanders, diplomats and British advisers gathered at the white colonial residence of Sir Paul Scoon, Governor-General of Grenada, to discuss the island's political future. Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer until elections can be held, later also convened at Scoon's to thresh out the problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked...
...handful of parties that formed in the 1970s to oppose the despotic rule of Sir Eric Gairy were gathered together in the New Jewel Movement after its Marxist leader, Maurice Bishop, took power in 1979. By and large, the N.J.M. followed Bishop to the grave in October. The only existing political group on the island is the Grenadian National Party, which has fewer than two dozen members and whose leader lies crippled by arthritis on the sister island of Carriacou. Many Grenadians, moreover, are leery of a return to democratic institutions that were a mixed blessing even before Gairy...
...just want everything to be lovely," says Norman. As credos go it is modest enough, and in normal times it has served him well in his career as dresser and dogsbody to the actor-manager-spoken of only as "Sir"-whose little Shakespearean company is touring the English provinces. The trouble is, the times are out of joint. World War II's air-raid sirens have a way of going off in the middle of the old boy's soliloquies. Worse, the years have taken their toll. As Sir says, anticipating his 227th performance of King Lear...
Ruddygore is a visual feast; not only are the sets remarkable, but so are the colorful original costumes, and the varied lighting. The biggest surprise comes in the second act when the life-sized portraits turn into the living ghosts of Sir Murgatroyds' ancestors. The combination of stage trickery, thundering music, black and red lighting, and grayish make-up make the scene extraordinarily effective...
...Billy. "All Through the Night." but is somewhat awkward in her speaking scenes. Strong supporting performances came from Stephanie Gilbert as Bonnie, a warm hearted, fast talking gangsterette and Jessica Beels as Mrs. Harcourt, a woman born to be a mother-in-law Patrick Bradford skillfully plays an imposing Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, Hope's British fiance who embodies starch until he warms to Reno in the duet...