Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Arthur Godfrey made it known last week that he has turned down two invitations to run for the U.S. Senate. He protected the identity of those who asked him to run and withheld whether he was to be a candidate from Virginia, where he lives, or for Senator-at-large. "As a Senator or Congressman," Godfrey explained to TV Guide, "I might be able to achieve something if I had enough time. But look-I'm almost 55 now. I don't know when the next elections are, but I'd be at least...
...Level." For Atkinson, Marilyn Monroe arrived on time. Helen Hayes gave the critic a huge silver tray inscribed with the names of all 130 guests, some of whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A critic has a mother, Just like anybody else"). Mary Martin sang I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy with Composer Richard Rodgers at the piano. Oscar Hammerstein II was master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition...
Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...
...play has honest details, good talk between Arthur and his pal, touching moments between Arthur and his girl (Carol Lynley). It has situations in which it is enough for people just to be young, or in trouble. But too much is pat or false, rigged up or spelled out; and at the end there is more softness on the playwrights' part than perception on the characters'. Truth, in Blue Denim, is too fitful, put-togetherness too frequent...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...