Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American premiere of Jean Genet's one-act play Deathwatch brings together the four figures who probably constitute Harvard's top theatrical talent: director Stephen Aaron and actors Colgate Salsbury, Harold Scott,, and D.J. Sullivan. This fact alone would promise to make the production a memorable one, but the measure of its success exceeds all expectations. Deathwatch is superb...
...problems both for the actors and the audience. On first glance, it looks like a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces mixed. Incident follows incident, but their relationship to each other seems indiscernible and nothing which might be called a story forms. Yet in time, and with the prodding of Aaron's perceptive direction, a pattern does emerge...
Translating Genet's complex ideas, patterns, and symbols into a coherent performance appears an almost overwhelming task, but Aaron has managed it. His skill in shaping the play by guiding the actors to proper emphasis at the proper moment is that of a master. Masterly, too, is his ingenuity in placing the cast in an almost endless sequence of exciting visual patterns within the limits of John Ratte's fine...
Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Duel, with E. G. Marshall in a drama about the feud between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (color...
...Congressional Record every day. At 17 he enrolled in the University of Mississippi, the first Coleman to attain college since pre-Civil War days. At 17 he was also on the hustings rounding up audiences for Gubernatorial Candidate Martin Conner; at 21 he went to Washington as Mississippi Congressman Aaron L. Ford's secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court judge to Supreme Court commissioner. He became attorney general under Governor Fielding Wright, in 1948 Dixiecrat vice-presidential nominee. In 1955 Coleman defeated Wright and three other candidates to become...