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Director George Hamlin has done an extremely skillful blocking job, and the motion does much to augment the thin script. Hamlin's actors move in sumptuous surroundings, designed by Donald Soule. The living room set is appropriately busy and garish, and the bedroom scene is almost worth the price of the ticket with its popsicle pink decor. Lewis Smith's excellent and correctly over-styled costumes complement the sets well...
...visit to Cuba before the present Communist regime seized power, I remember being astonished by the number of students, probably members of the Young Students' Progressive League, continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace. As I stood on the Havana sidewalk marvelling at their perilous behavior, I wondered, "why don't American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded...
Second, the insinuation that "student riots in the 'home of the brave' are incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands" simply ignores the facts. What, we ask, is more purposeful: a group of Latin Americans "continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace" or 4,000 clean-cut Harvard students shouting as one man: "Latin si, Pusey no"? And which is more effective; students vaguely "proclaiming their political ideals" in scattered cities or 1600 Harvard men concentrated on Cambridge making a specific demand: Pogo for President...
...tenure second only to that of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Italian-born maestro who ruled from 1908 to 1935. "I thought it was a big job when I came, and it has grown even bigger," said Bing, looking forward to the Met's 1965 move into sumptuous new quarters in Lincoln Center: "It's going to be beautiful, absolutely beautiful, and acoustically perfect. These next few years are going to be unbelievably busy for everyone-if we all live through them...
Moans Owner Henri Soulé of the sumptuous Le Pavilion: "We cannot survive...