Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried out a new version at Stage West in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in which he mixed together parts of both third acts. I didn't see this production; but when the Theatre Company of Boston did the play at the Loeb Theatre two months ago, director David Wheeler did a bit of mixing of his own, and also substituted a single intermission just before the big confrontation instead of preserving the two in the text...
...Lies Here? (Putnam; $6.95), Author Thomas G. Wheeler picks bones of a more literal sort. His quite confident contention is that Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides never contained the body of the Emperor. The corpse reburied there in 1840 was a look-alike named Eugène Robeaud. This impostor, an infantryman chosen by Napoleon's secret police to stand in for the Emperor at various ceremonial and public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning...
...Much of Wheeler's argument is based on folk legend, alleged intrigues and half-formed plots to free Napoleon yet another time. But what is convincing is Wheeler's enthusiasm for a subject in whose name nearly as much ink has been spilled as blood...
...THERO WHEELER. After spending much of his life in trouble with law enforcement authorities, he was sentenced to prison in August 1962 for second-degree robbery. Paroled in 1967, he was put into Vacaville the next year to receive psychiatric treatment. Once again paroled in January 1969, he was arrested ten months later, convicted of attacking a police officer in Los Angeles, and sentenced to six months to ten years. He was in several state penal institutions...
...escaping briefly from Soledad in December 1971, and then broke out for good from Vacaville last Aug. 2. He served time with DeFreeze at Vacaville, but the two were not known to be close friends. In prison, Wheeler became active in the Venceremos...