Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pont Show of the Month: Weaving through a French chateau, London's Old Bailey, a revolutionary Paris square with guillotine, and some 30 other sets, cutting from love duets to orgies of hate, CBS gave Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities a revival that all but burst out of the TV screen. The play roiled with revolutionary turmoil, rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended...
...raced the mile in ten months, but Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, grabbed an early lead in a race at Melbourne, sprinted through a spectacular 57.9-sec. last quarter to nip the 4-min. mile at 3:59.9, became the fourth Aussie (after John Landy, Jim Bailey and Mervyn Lincoln) to turn the trick...
...never studied acting" [Dec. 9], if he meant the formal study of the art. However, your readers will probably be interested to know that in his three years as an English major at Rollins College, he appeared in many plays under the very able direction of Professor Howard Bailey...
...mannered and meticulous TV adaptation of The Life of Samuel Johnson really caught fire. Though there was little dramatic continuity to Boswell's massive chronicle, the scenes that Omnibus selected-a rowdy night at Drury Lane, a fashionable gathering at Mrs. Thrale's home, a packed Old Bailey courtroom-were charged with both drollery and drama. For, more than any other Englishman, Sam Johnson raised "a life of talk to the level of a life of action...
Coach Cooney Weiland and his sextet, then, have a definite score to settle with this Canadian-dominated team. The final goal of this 2-1 loss, moreover, was of the cheapest variety, as Captain Ed Rowe scored it by digging it out from under varsity goalie Jim Bailey's pads after the whistle had evidently been blown...