Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style, from muddy mimeographs to a glossy, three-color quarterly, like the Atlantian at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta. Their circulation can be impressive: the biweekly press run of the San Quentin News is 10,000 copies, 1,481 of which go by mail to paid subscribers, including Actor Jack Palance and Society Columnist Cobina Wright (no alumni). Inside the walls they are consumed with the avidity of men who have nothing but time on their hands. "The Atlantian must be well received," says Associate Warden Virgil Breland at Atlanta. "We don't find the commodes jammed up with...
Fire & Ice. Neither Wallmann nor Felsenstein, both born in Vienna, began their careers in the world of opera. Felsenstein started out to be an actor, drifted into opera directing in the 1920s. He took over the Komische Oper in 1947, speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort...
...drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals all over the stage. Fumed Actor O'Brian: "So I kiss a girl, this is a crime? I'm a red-blooded American boy. Besides, I kiss the horse at the beginning of the show...
...announces that as a witch she is not supposed to blush, cry, or indeed have very much expression at all. But when the heroine suddenly changes into a woman in love, Kim's expression changes so little that the spectator may find himself wondering which was witch. And Actor Stewart seems to be overwhelmed by Actress Novak's example. As the bewitched hero, he stumbles around most of the time with a vaguely blissful expression-rather like a comic-strip character who has just been socked by Popeye...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An uninterrupted plum pudding, with Actor Victor Tory reciting Dickens, Comedian Dick Van Dyke pantomiming tree decorators, Newscaster Douglas Edwards reading the New York Sun's 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...