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...Father," "A Report to the Academy," and "Before the Law" are handled well by director and actors. Thanks to the artistry of Henry Timm, who seems made for the portly malevolence of Kafka's worst bureaucrats, these skits are well done. Playing the father, the magistrates, and the ape who discovers humanity in a bottle of Schnapps, Timm has a masterful sense of just where it is that absurdity and humor intersect...
SUNDAY: Primal Man. First of a four part series on primitive homo sapiens sounds like Konrad Lorenz in Ape-face. What were the roots of violence and aggression in man, is the question. Filmed in the Mohave Desert. CH.5. 7:30 p.m. Color...
...Louis Sheaffer's fair-minded biography picks him up, 31 and ascendant, at his Broadway debut with Beyond the Horizon, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1920. Between 1920 and 1922 he turned out eight plays. He wrote The Emperor Jones in about two weeks, The Hairy Ape in 2½ and Ah! Wilderness in less than a month...
...Boulton (mother of Shane and Oona O'Neill), a short-story writer who once fell asleep while he was reading a script to her. His third and last wife never made that mistake. Born Hazel Tharsing, Carlotta Monterey met her fourth husband when she played in The Hairy Ape. Once her eyes, "like wet grapes," fixed on him, she blessed and cursed the playwright with all the attention a writer could dream...
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES once again pits simians against mankind in the fifth installment of a series that with any luck will not include a sixth. The humans are the scarred survivors of nuclear disaster, led by Severn Darden as the kind of consciously hammy villain that kids love to giggle at during the Saturday matinee. The apes make a curiously pallid bunch of heroes. Roddy McDowall, a veteran of three other Ape epics, appears as Caesar, the idealistic ape who led his species out of bondage to man with a few fiery speeches and some sensible...