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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the beautiful, corrupted children. Their main difficulty is that their voices aren't quite strong enough; and in the chimes scene, where their hymn deteriorates into a satanic chant, the horrifying words can hardly he heard at all. But J. Thomas Sullivan as Miles is so good an actor, looks so angelic, and sounds so pure, that his scenes are very moving even though we often have to strain to hear. His song in the schoolroom is a weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction...

Author: By William W. Sleator, | Title: The Turn of the Screw | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page One herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: Abandoning Abandon | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Luce, Sydne Skolnik really turns on in the second act. She and her director-actor-husband last teamed in Guys and Dolls (before they were married) and would do well to keep it up. Steve Cotler appears in various disguises at regular intervals and with not inconsiderable success...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Boys From Syracuse | 5/5/1966 | See Source »

...goal in the theatre was a modest program of courses concerned with drama, and a theatre in which undergraduates would be free to their ambitions, it would not be difficult for him to bring it to pass. Babe and Seltzer both propose supplementing the present by bringing a respected actor, director, or designer to the Loeb for a term, to work on one show and to be available to undergraduates the rest of the time. Chapman also favors this plan. Its chances of adoption, now slight, could be certain by a helping hand from the Dean...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: The Harvard Review and the Loeb | 5/3/1966 | See Source »

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