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...Jack Bittner, portraying Time, rise out of the ground wearing a 1958 suit and carrying a wet umbrella over his head. They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
...last week's Christian Century: In the old American view, the parson was "the representative 'person' of the community, partaking of its representative lot-economically as well as otherwise. The lady of the manse, as helpmeet to her husband, was a sort of stewardess of the steward of the mysteries of God; she raised children as olive plants at his side...
Nine high school students walked off their dining hall jobs last night, charging "unfair practices" and "favoritism" on the part of George Kanz, assistant steward of the College Dining Halls...
...less outspoken about Queen Damali's son, who was born in Kampala just nine months after the queen visited him in his London exile. The attending doctor declared that the baby was definitely premature, and King Freddie has stubbornly refused to have him baptized. When an airline steward congratulated him on the birth of his son three years ago. King Freddie snapped: "Don't congratulate...
...cops, and after a long, moonlit search, the investigators found Monti and his men shoveling snow off the sled track as busily as neighbors clearing a driveway. Nonplused at having nabbed a world champion, the cops collected the shovels and made a report to the Bob-Wart (track steward). Next morning, with the backing of the Italian Bobsled Association, the steward and his Championship Jury disqualified Shoveler Monti's sled...