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...evening of dramatic readings, a troupe of West Coast actors transplanted to Broadway are trying to add histrionic vitality to Masters' historic importance. Charles Aidman, who staged the project, has linked related characters and interspersed the verse vignettes with folk songs. He and his fellow actors animate the characters with consummate skill and sly humor. But the overall effect is spasmodic and ineloquent. Whenever Masters tried to draw a lyrical breath, he was apt to exhale some inflatedly gassy lines. Bloated example...
...fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe that the Marshall Plan won sturdy bipartisan support. "Without the Herter committee's groundwork," said a top Washington aidman. "the program of foreign aid would never have been passed...
...money, the poor man goes to jail). Roddy McDowall was excellent as the troubled man of wealth, and J. Pat O'Malley had a field day with his muleheaded part. On Star Tonight, a 30-minute program aimed at giving actors their first starring TV roles, young Charles Aidman managed, without any Brando mannerisms, to play a hillbilly who pins the murder of his wife on the local sheriff (Buster Crabbe...