Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extent of U.S. influence is as familiar to British televiewers as Maverick or Richard (Have Gun) Boone. On London's commercial Channel 9 last week, there were more than nine hours of U.S. shows. And the BBC supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels...
Lewis Lehman's staging in the intimate scenes is frequently static, (in the first scene, for instance, he has Mr. Lurtsema rooted to an armchair for what seems an eternity) but his crowd scenes are nicely handled. And his interpretation of the play is lucid and valid. Cherie Hughes has some very nice lighting effects, but the set, such as it was, could have stood a bit more imagination and atmosphere...
...Street, named in his honor. From his suite in the neighborhood's top hotel, vacated for him and his party of 50, he handed out blessings and advice (tantamount to orders) to the hundreds that queued up for hours to see him. Occasionally, he leaned back in an armchair and dozed while others prayed. Teitelbaum has not slept in a bed for 50 years...
This production of All's Well is fine enough to obscure many of the shortcoming of the play itself as analyzed in the armchair. Need more be said...
...Force arms. Colonel Smith last week dropped her opposition to Jimmy Stewart. The Defense Department assured the committee that active Pilot Stewart will, if a national emergency comes, be grounded in a public-relations billet. If any proof were needed that Stewart will be a thoroughly competent armchair general, it came last week in a fine CBS-TV documentary program (Cowboy Five Seven) about the Strategic Air Command. The filmed show's producer-director-narrator: Stewart. His promotion will be official after certain Senate approval this week...