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`Race' is sweet, somber version of Aesop's fable

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900420
Author:Anne Taubeneck

If an acting award were offered for best performance as a tortoise, Paul M. White would win, claws down.

With a syrupy voice reminiscent of a young Boris Karloff, and broad, slow-motion moves, White is Mr. Sloe, the hero of "The Great Cross Country Race," also titled "The Hare and the Tortoise." The children's production currently is being presented through May 19 by DePaul University's Theatre School Playworks at the Blackstone Theater, 60 E. Balbo (341-8455).

White's Mr. Sloe is just one of several animal characters that populate this sweet but uneven DePaul kids' play, directed by ...

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