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...initial run, despite the praise of drama critics Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times and the New Yorker's Woolcott Gibbs. HDC hopes, however, that their version of the play will re-arouse public interest in it, since Lee Strasberg, who directed "Men in White" and "Skipper Next to God" on Broadway has dressed the work up especially for them. Gibbs will attend one of the performances and review the HDC production...
...fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim scrapping with the skipper. But when the captain refuses the crew a desperately needed shore leave, Mr. Roberts, to get it for them, promises to toe the line. The amazed and disgusted crew thinks that Mr. Roberts has ratted, only to find out the truth and worship him the more...
...Erickson and Bert Kelsey, professional dramatists for the Federal Theater, accepted co-directorship of the play last night. Shaw himself has promised to rewrite the work. Lee Strasberg, director of the recent "Skipper Next to God," will give additional professional aid as production supervisor. 'Cliffe Gives "Masque of Mercy...
Almost to a man, officers and seamen of the Micmac stood by their short, wiry skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...
Died. Edward Carrington Heard, 68, Britain's No. 1 professional yachtsman; in Tollesbury, England. Heard was the last professional to skipper a British yacht in the America's Cup races (Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger Shamrock V in 1930), failed to win the cup for England-as his countrymen have tried and failed to do ever since...