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Kenyon Martin and the National Mime Theater do a mostly enjoyable show over at Lesley College's Welch Auditorium every Friday and Saturday evening at 8. The first part of the show is called "Beyond Words" and it's made up of nine traditional mime routines. Martin, the grand master of the art form in America, is the featured performer during this first act. He's just a joy to behold. The second part, "Unnatural Acts," is an original theater piece that dispenses with mime tradition--a lot of the humor is verbal rather than physical--and is uneven...
...Marshall Scholarship winners are James K. Galbraith of Cambridge; Robert A. Levine of New York; David W. Moskowitz of Santa Monica, Calif.; Linda Sperling of Houston, Tex.; Edward M. Stolper of West Newton; and Jack D. Welch III of Marlin...
...United States has no tradition, as the Europeans have, in dealing with mime as an independent art form, and consequently the U.S. has been at a loss at producing competent performers or appreciative audiences. The National Mime Theater, now playing at Lesley College's Welch Auditorium, may have gone a ways to solve that problem. The troupe has combined old-fashioned mime with the stylized anarchy of a clown show and the result is a production that is at times uneven, but one that is unusually creative and often extremely funny...
Kenyon Martin and the National Mime Theater begin their season at Lesley College's Welch Auditorium this evening and Saturday. The two-hour performance, reportedly the best the United States has to offer in this traditionally European art form, consists of a combination of classical mime and the company's original new piece, "Unnatural Acts." No jokes about how the show left me speechless. Tickets...
...money (St. Clair gave up a practice reportedly worth $300,000 a year to become Nixon's lawyer for an annual salary of $42,500.) Also, St. Clair says he believes in making his counsel available to whomever most needs it. On that principle, he helped Joseph N. Welch battle Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954; he helped the Boston School Department fight enforced racial balance; he argued against film censorship. Rev. William Sloane Coffin, whom St. Clair defended against charges of conspiracy to violate draft laws, once complained: "The trouble with St. Clair...