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...first half of last Monday's concert was a delight; the rest, a puzzle. The Brandeis players produced a more-than-competent performance of Haydn's Trio No. 5, for piano, violin, and cello; and their execution of the other work before the intermission, a Schubert song for voice, piano, and clarinet, was superb. But about Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire," which took up the rest of the evening, it is difficult to be so enthusiastic...
...Haydn, Robert Koff's violin and Madeline Foley's cello were both excellent. A shade less successful was Martin Boykan's effort on the piano, which seemed at times to drown out the rest of the trio. Keeping the top of the instrument closed was a step in the right direction, but it tended to make the tone a bit on the muddy side...
...strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...
...camp is squalid-its only purity the snow, its only building a brothel. The beau is not squalid, but his three brothers are, and they clearly expect to share communal marital privileges. When the terrified bride decamps on her wedding night and rejoins the gold-guarding trio, the serious shooting begins. The good-guy bad-guy struggle is dramatically tangled and intensified by the fact that Scott and Starr have intended all along to either sweet-talk or pistol-silence McCrea out of the gold...
Murphy then presented his own star-studded entertainment program, seemingly to mellow the political aspects of the vening. The Dunhills, Edgar Bergen and his Friends, Jane Powell, the Kingston Trio, and a pair of rising young comedians named Rowan and Martin finished out the "Greatest Show in the history of the Republican Party in Massachusetts."LAURENCE CURTIS...