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...actors, who took 16 curtain calls, during the last three of which the audience chanted Scofield's name in unison. After the applause had been going on for so long that the actors felt the need to introduce some variety, they applauded the audience for their reception. Said Actor Alec Clunes, who played the king: "All through the performance the audience was very much with us. We didn't get as many laughs as we would expect to get in London, but we got many. And I suspect we got a lot of tears...
Famous Film Festival (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Alec Guinness in The Promoter...
Leaving a half-finished paper on his desk, Henry Fry '59 left by bus for Vermont Wednesday evening without informing anyone of his intentions to get away from it all. His roommate, Alec B. Dawson '59, became worried Thursday morning and notified the University police. Shortly afterward, Fry's parents flew to Boston from Mecaniesburg...
British Novelist Alec Waugh, after writing for years in the shadow of his younger brother Evelyn, at last tasted fame and fortune. His new novel, Island in the Sun, to be published in January, has made an across-the-board clean sweep of U.S. literary jackpots: 1) the Ladies' Home Journal is serializing it; 2) the Literary Guild has chosen it; 3) the Reader's Digest Book Club will digest it; and 20th Century-Fox will film...
...broader, slapstick way, Fernandel in Sheep takes on the tricky business of multiple roles, after the fashion of Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness. Separately, and in some technically flawless group scenes, he plays Papa Saint-Forget, a crippled, bitter old vintner, and five quintuplet sons, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, and Etienne. The episodic action begins in Trezignan, a French village where some 39 years before the film begins, Papa Saint-Forget, wanting a daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when...