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TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of Cannery Row, Suzy, the film's heroine, goes out to dinner with the town intellectual, Doc. He's a classy guy, even if he does spend a lot of time collecting crustaceans down by the wharf, and he takes her to what she would probably call a "real classy joint." But Suzy's a hooker, albeit a fledgling one, and she's not quite sure how to behave. The maitre d' is wearing black tie, and Doc orders crab, a difficult food under any circumstances. Fighting panic. Suzy falls back on an age-old rule: when...
Nunn and Co-Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production...
...nation apart.... In Congress and in the state, he was 'the centre of union' around which a majority always seemed able to coalesce.... He deserves to be enshrined as America's first modern politician. He could win a following with rum on the Common, or jobs at the wharf.... He seems really to have cared about the people he served...
...which was voted best play of the year by the critics in 1940-41, is a strong anti-Nazi tract, half drama, half propaganda. The 1943 movie version, with Bette Davis and, Paul Lukas, can still evoke tears and anger on the late show. New Haven's Long Wharf Theater put it on the boards last year, and Producer Lester Osterman, who was in the audience, decided to bring it to Broadway: "The audience there was enthusiastic. I was crying." With three co-producers he raised $225,000 and opened the play Jan. 3 at the John Golden Theater...
...leading to a bay dotted by a number of small islands, on one of these islands, Cayo Alcatraz, a U-2 on Aug. 26 photographed new construction activity that had not been evident during a flight eleven days earlier. All that could be definitely identified was work on a wharf and on some new barracks. In itself this was not unusual. What made it of more than passing significance was another piece of intelligence: a flotilla of Soviet ships was heading toward Cuba; a submarine tender, a guided-missile cruiser, a guided-missile destroyer, an ocean-going salvage...