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...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter. In a junk-filled London room, two odd brothers and a tramp illuminate the perennial questions of man's isolation from, his need for, and his quirky rejection of, his fellow...
...stands the taxpayers nearly $47 million-about 50% more than a similar-sized, conventional ship. She will be able to cruise 300,000 nautical miles on a single fueling of her reactor. At first, the Savannah will be operated by the Maritime Administration as a sort of atomic-age tramp steamer, carrying up to 60 passengers and 10,000 tons of cargo at prevailing rates, without a set schedule. Then, in another 18 months, the Savannah will be chartered to the States Marine Lines, which will put her in service on a regular commercial schedule...
...Caretaker, by Harold Pinter, holds a mirror up to two strange brothers and a verminous tramp and, in it, an audience can read humorous and heartbreaking truths about the human condition...
...Marvelous & Grimy. As the verminous tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (TIME, Oct. 13), Donald Pleasence, 41, succeeds in creating probably the grubbiest creature who has ever been seen on Broadway, beside whom the average Bowery bum would seem like the twin of Mr. Clean. For all the brilliance of the playwright, The Caretaker would collapse onstage without an actor who could make the old man both repulsive and sympathetic. Like Scofield, Pleasence got his early experience in Birmingham. Enormously popular on British television, he has wide and proven capabilities as a character actor and in leading roles...
...girls are just as good. Linda Bauer skillfully portrays Lucy, the maid, as an engaging, tough little tramp, and Shelia Stannard (Alithea), in spite of some awkward moments, makes an art form out of blandness. Tam Miller as Margery Pinchwife is magificently dumb, and leaps around the stage like an oversexed gnome. As for Emilie Rahman as Lady Fidget--boy, that Emilie Rahman. She is the best thing in the play as the wise-cracking, tough-talking Lady-always-in-waiting...