Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offered little in the way of parts, the cast seldom rises above the limitations of the play. The major role of barrister Sir William Robert is played by Francis L. Sullivan, whose pomposity and gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because...
When the Korean war came, he had a soft touch in the finance service, but he wanted combat duty. He was sent to an infantry refresher course, and then as a corporal to Korea. After 123 combat patrols, he came home a master sergeant, took an officer candidate course, ranked seventh among the 54 who last August got commissions in his group...
...Graham Greene) has, at worst, a very real value in the current theater: it brings darkness to light places. In this grim drama, which emerges as a kind of distinguished failure, Graham Greene begins where most of the successes leave off. Amid all its spiritual confusions, there is no touch of compromise, and though it clearly goes downhill, it never once turns off its own steeply rocky road...
Despite not playing one game, the Grays' touch team achieved a commendable seven won, two lost season's record. Lester Archambeau, Charles Jennings, and Charles Pennoyer played consistently well all year to lead the team to its third place league standing...
Fast and aggressive, Thayer Middle's touch team won six out of nine games to come in fourth in the league. And with the fourth place cross country showing, Thayer is now a meagre 1.5 points behind third place Wigglesworth West in the championship race...