Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hunter as Helen, the Stratford production gives audiences the feeling that they are watching The Red Badge of Courage with Shakespeare dubbed into the sound track. Chuck wagon, gunfire, sounding of taps-it is minor ingeniousness at the expense of genius. In the end, the Civil War trick seems merely a capitalization on the war's 100th anniversary fever, and in 1976 Troilus will probably be done again at Stratford set at Valley Forge...
...aspiring bandits are all set to clock Ihe roulette action and flash the data to MAX, when suddenly-quick now, what next?-a beautiful chick pops into the room. She is Brigid Bazlen, a cute, twitchy little trick who does most of her acting with her eyebrows. Then in pops Paula Prentiss, a tall, gawkily gorgeous brunette who is, as one girl must be in every properly run comedy, helplessly nearsighted. She is an old flame of Hutton's whom he left, not, as it would happen in the real world, because she had a cork leg or wanted...
...delayed phone call, explaining candidly: "The tape recorder is on the blink." Westerners have learned to be even more leary of a telephone when it is resting innocently on the cradle. One of the Poles' pet dodges is to turn an idle receiver into a live mike, a trick most easily accomplished by replacing the phone's regular two-wire flex with a four-strand cable whose extra wires lead either to a transmitter in the wall socket or to an outside tape recorder...
Codfish Aristocracy. A master of the straw hat trick-he pays his loyal apprentices nothing, makes them pay $30 a week for room and board, and constantly threatens to fire them-Currier, now 46, started his theater when he was 17, and built it into one of the country's most durable stock houses by the traditional method-milking Broadway cows turned out to pasture (this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics...
...Berlin's city council, Adenauer's Christian Democrats are not "the opposition." as Gunther reports, but in coalition with Willy Brandt's Socialists. Benelux currencies are no more or less "interchangeable" than the rest of Europe's money. Another irritation is Gunther's constant trick of prefacing the obvious with the phrase "as everybody knows," or worse, "as is well known...