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Since the spring of 1957, law-enforcement agencies have been trying to unravel the complex dealings of Fancy Financier Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, who promoted his way to control of 40 companies, mainly through top posts at Swan-Finch Oil Corp. and Doeskin Products, Inc. Last week a New York County grand jury indicted Birrell on 69 counts of grand larceny, alleged that he stole stock worth $14 million from the two companies...
Died. Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian-born Hollywood director (The Swan, Hans Christian Anderson), who promoted Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and other stars; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
Washburn's characters are solidly amusing. In the part of Jack, Richard Dozier performs with gusto and vehemence. And Mikel Lambert, in her farewell to the Harvard stage, draws a neat little caricature as his hollowing wife. Other sketches are by Swan, Schwartz, and Griffin, again, and by Linda Gerstenfeld...
...producer for the two plays--and serves very ably, too--an unevenly talented cast gives an energetic and convincing performance. Tom Griffin, in the role of the stranger, appears somewhat nervous; maybe he's supposed to be--I guess we all would, in that kind of company. Jim Swan, one of the College's most assured actors, leads the denizen crew with a misguided righteousness that very nicely constructs the mood for the rest. They are: Robert Schwartz, Richard Dozier, George de Menil, Travis Linn and Richard Fisher--with a special hello to Mr. Dozier. John Grace constructed...
There were other stars both evenings: Vladimir Levashev, who danced the role of the Evil Sorcerer with briny conviction and made his final, crippled death dance a wonderful virtuoso exercise; Nicolai Fadeyechev, who was superb as the Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied...