Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been fitted with a new handle: the "adult Western." And there are signs that the old genre has come of age. Items: Hugh O'Brian, who plays Earp, and Jim Arness, star of CBS's highly rated Gunsmoke, have been named as Emmy candidates for "best actor in a continuing series" by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences-the kind of distinction that hard-riding Tom Mix and Buck Jones never overtook. In movies the adult Western goes back at least as far as John Ford's Stagecoach. On the air it owes its start...
...Broadway is thus the only real showcase for both actors and playwrights. Several companies wish to produce new plays exclusively, thus achieving a workshop for both actor and writer that is self-supporting. Among these is Ira Cirker's New Theatre Company, which has taken a lease on the Jan Hus Theatre. Not only do these artists hope to get their daily bread, but also to mold a dynamic and living theatre. The Shakespearewrights are one of the most promising of these groups. Composed largely of Yale Drama School graduates, they have produced several works of the bard...
...life of an off-Broadway producer or actor is far from idyllic. The main reason why off-Broadway groups can keeps their costs so far below the Broadway level is that the various stage-crafts unions have permitted their members to work for considerably less than union minimums. Equity also occasionally suspends its $80 weekly minimum wage so that some companies pay their actors as little as $25 per week. But then no one goes into acting to make money, for the average actor has an annual income of less than a thousand dollars...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare." adapted by Drama Critic Walter Kerr, narrated by Boris Karloff; Cleveland Amory looks at U.S. society from 1900-14; French Actor Jean-Louis Barrault and his actress-wife Madeleine Renaud in a series of sketches...
...only one) original contribution: Tom Tryon, a 31-year-old bit-part boy from Broadway who, in his first good screen part as the one-armed brother of the hero (Charlton Heston), displays what one publicist has described as "175 pounds of dreamy meat." The boy is a skillful actor. At one point he even manages to steal a scene from Heroine Anne Baxter, who is probably the most relentless camera-hugger in the business...