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Barred from their regular chamber by the army, the Deputies assembled on rows of wicker chairs in El-Azm's rambling Damascus mansion, voted to restore the liberal 1950 constitution with a few amendments. Their 156-10-1 choice for Premier was big (6 ft.), bespectacled El-Azm. Convinced that Parliament would steer an even course, the army quietly assented to the changes...
...rather than required, the great majority of the audience turns up black-tied and bejeweled. In the 75-minute intermission between acts, the orchestra usually gathers to play croquet by the fading evening light while the audience sets up their folding tables on the lawn and dines from bulging wicker picnic baskets...
...former Byzantine Regency splendour, little survives; the bunched-up seats of the balcony are basically the same-although decently robed in new chintz ("There was so much to be done," explains Bud Kramer '56, the theatre's manager); and of course the wicker reserved chairs in the front of the balcony have held their own -- though they too are hidden under a fresh coat of white paint; and even the new owners, Brian Halliday and Sy Harberg, have not yet been able to clear the old vaudeville dressing room under the stage of a hallowed rotogravure print labelled (boldly) "President...
...next half-hour, the show proceeded as predictably as if Kennedy and the assembled newsmen were following a script-as they might well have been. The President had a few announcements to make. Then came the questions, ranging from the oracular to the silly. "Mr. President," began Tom Wicker of the New York Times, "this is the first anniversary of your election last year, and in the campaign that preceded that election there was considerable talk." etc. Eighty-five words later, Wicker got to his point: If Kennedy were campaigning all over again, would he do it differently? (Answer...
These last four dominate what Joseph Everingham as Director has delineated as the first act, and though he moves them about energetically enough, the pace seems sluggish and tired. In the latter two acts, however, they recede--and the play becomes ridiculous. Donald Soule has provided a perfect wicker-cum-art nouveau...