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...liveliest actor on stage is Martha Moore, who brings an appropriately strung-out wiltedness to the role of Veta Louise. Jason Tomarken also deserves mention for an uneven but amusingly arrogant performance as Dr. Sanderson. Tomarken is tall and skinny and uses his body very well on stage to achieve comic effects, especially when he leans over to peer over the over the top of his glasses. Donal Logue hammed up his role as a muscular hospital attendant and also raised some welcome chuckles. Frankly the characters in this play are so goofy already that the funniest performances result from...
James Wright soon snatched his diploma and left for Kenyon College, eventually wandering far from the gritty industrial town strung along the Ohio River above Wheeling, W. Va., but he never really escaped the place. He couldn't. A hypersensitive youth who just happened to be set down amid swirling olive water and factory steam, Wright had had his poetic subject matter handed to him on a dinner plate. He neither forgot nor forgave the misery that he knew...
...string was strung between surviving sticks of furniture, and they began to play tennis. "We played for ice cream," she says, "ice cream with hot raspberries. There was music too. It was fun." Graf is a lean, athletic man, 48, not much taller than his daughter, who can seem smaller than 5 ft. 8. in., sometimes quite delicate. A latecomer to tennis, he was a soccer player of local note, given to working so excessively hard that he routinely ripped his muscles and powdered his bones. Of all the world's Little League parents, tennis may produce the most virulent...
DIED. Elizabeth Hartman, 45, high-strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
...nothing could embarrass this most majestic of bridges, built in treacherous waters at a cost of only eleven lives. More would have been killed had not Joseph B. Strauss, the engineer who conceived and built the bridge, insisted that nets be strung under the workmen; the nets saved 19. Strauss said it best at the dedication, in an age when wonders were built to stay wondrous: "This bridge needs neither praise, eulogy nor encomium. It speaks for itself...