Word: wilber
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Only a couple of performances rise above the standard set by the leads. Shirley Wilber's embodiment of Juliet's Nurse seems on another plane from everything else in this production: smooth and completely in control of every nuance of Shakespeare's verse. Her discovery of Juliet's feigned death is the only moment of convincing grief in the whole show...
...being a good salesman. I don't steal from the poor." He even won some high praise. Ethel Kennedy wrote to say that she had been "moved" by his portrait of J.F.K. and was "looking forward" to his painting of her husband. Former Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker called his own portrait "a tribute to both your artistic skill and powers of observation...
...move over to talk to the chairman of the Illinois delegation, Harold Wilber, a real estate subdivider. Wilber fills me in on the split in the Illinois movement between the American Independent and the American Independence Parties. Both are here together today, however, even though their combined petitions are not enough to get a candidate on the Illinois ballot. Wilber looks forward to a court ruling on a ballot suit brought by Gene McCarthy and hopes the decision will help them too. Later in the week, a decision is handed down in favor of McCarthy but does not apply directly...
...Wilber begins to tell me of his admiration for Calvin Coolidge (Herbert Hoover was another convention favorite), his wife appears and asks about a man who has just walked into the hotel and wants to be a delegate. Wilber instructs her to have him pay his money, sign in, and wait for some brief questioning. Convention officials make no secret of any of this. The next day, when the roll call for president reaches Maine, a debate between the state chairman and convention secretary ensues over whether Maine has paid $100 each for the number of delegates they claim...
Equus. Eq, Eq, Eq--and it's not Ec. 10, either. More horses and psychotics at the Wilber Theater at 252 Tremont St., Boston. Monday-Sat at 8 p.m., Sat and Wed also at 2 p.m. Wednesday night was the show's 200th Boston performance, so don't blame the cast if it looks a little tired...