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...enjoys cooking the duck, goose and turkey that he bags on shooting expeditions. He also likes to sew?a talent he picked up from his tailor-father. His dress runs to conservative dark suits. When he was Governor, Muskie invariably wore a clip-on bow tie, but he has since returned to four-in-hand ties. Though his tall, ruggedly handsome figure is an undoubted contribution to the image of the ticket, his five-inch advantage over Humphrey will inevitably invite Mutt and Jeff caricatures...
Between the two came Androcles and the Lion (1911-12). For this, Shaw took his basic plot from an ancient tale related by the second-century Latin author Aulus Gellius. Shaw changed Gellius' Androclus, who was a Roman and a slave, into Androcles, who was a Greek, a tailor, and a Christian...
ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailovic, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popovic's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Vbu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...
Author Benchley, 52, son of Humorist Robert Benchley and himself a successful comic novelist (his book The Off-Islanders became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...
ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailović, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popović's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...