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Aside from the playing of "My Country 'Tis of Thee" between acts, Edelman has directed The Devil's Disciple without undue bicentennial self-consciousness. His cast goes through its paces against a background of colonial oranges and browns that dominate Donald Soule's carefully-crafted sets, and the play's focus properly remains on individual, rather than national, transformation...
...Thee, first in peace and honours...
...does not succumb to the temptation to keep yelling constantly. He knows how to move, too, as when in the grips of neurosis he prowls around the circular platform like a caged animal. And he dares elicit a smile when he sputters at Paulina's husband, "I charged thee that she should not come about me," and then adds, sotto voce, "I knew she would." He also managers to ring true when he strips to the waist, takes off his crown and grovels on the floor while encouraging Paulina to tongue-lash him. Again and again, when...
Given the limitations of their material, Manulis, the Grant-In-Aid Society et. al. have produced a Godspell where everything really is "all for the best." So when the show's talented cast cries out, "We beseech thee, hear us," it's worth paying heed, if only for an evening...
...christen thee Olympic Bravery," cried Christina Onassis, as she smashed a bottle of champagne last October against the blunt bow of the first giant tanker to be delivered to the Onassis fleet since she took over its management after the death of her father, Aristotle Onassis. The 275,000-ton ship, which earlier had undergone successful sea trials, headed from Brest on her maiden voyage on Jan. 24 and ran into a sudden squall. Then the ship's engines inexplicably quit, leaving it to drift in 60-m.p.h. gusts; the 30-man crew dropped two anchors but the anchor...