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...Renoir's Toni (1934), with Black Stage, a 1919 Harold Lloyd short, Thursday, Oct.2, at 7:30; Reed: Insurgent Mexico, by Paul Leduc, Sunday, Oct. 5, at 7:30. Both one dollar...
Jules Siegel, a California state unemployment official, finds that "losing a job is like losing a loved one." Adds Toni St. James, a San Francisco vocational psychologist: "Unemployment can become a psychological illness with symptoms as clearly defined as a disease like measles. Tragically, too many of the unemployed face the trauma alone, feeling rejected even by those who love them." At social gatherings, unemployed people often find themselves standing alone. They have little to talk about because so much of the conversation is job-oriented. Other guests tend to avoid them, much as football players move away from...
Last week, nearly a full month after the board accepted Leiding's resignation, it finally agreed on a successor. He is Toni Schmücker, 53, an outsider who was until recently president of Rheinstahl AG, a large steel company. But Schmücker is no stranger to the auto business: he spent 30 years with Ford of Germany, rising to director of sales. Yet his reputation as a corporate reorganizer dates from 1968, when he jumped from Ford to Rheinstahl, a once profitable firm that had been driven into the red by severe cost problems. Schmücker...
...lateral than ascendant. It resembles what was called in grade school parlance a Vegetable Play: "I am a carrot... I am a string bean... I am a cranshaw melon." The characters announce their problems rather than portray them, and then move to renounce them, rather than resolve them. When Toni's friend Nina announces "I have confidence, I'm wild, I'm radiant, I'm magnificent" one wants to grab her and shake her, shouting "Be it, don't say it." Nina talks incessantly about her daughter, who we are to believe is the most important person in her life...
...fantasy-spinning child. She takes a potentially pedestrian part and makes it fly, in a technically superb performance. Her fifteen-minute sequence is almost worth seeing for its own sake. But the remainder of the cast is undistinguished. Joanna Temple accentuates the already brittle, shrill tenor of Toni's role. Sheila Greene as Nina does little to pry her part loose from its rather uninspired box. Only Joan Trachtman as Toni's mother seems unhappily tethered to a very limited script. One senses she could do a great deal more with the part, given a little room in which...