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...trophy time for three Harvard names... Associate Professor of Sociology Paul E. Starr dropped by Columbia University last week to pick up this year's coveted Bancroft Prize...
...Rogers of the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Rogers pays special attention to German books of the 17th century for traces of anti-Semitism evident in the dealings of money-changers who cheated their Jewish customers by giving them worthless coins. Rogers also recommends the materials from the Bancroft Collection on the South Sea Bubble, which include posters, pamphlets, and books chronicling the speculative main which swept through England in the 1720's, when lots of financiers invested their money in tulips. "There's always something to be learned from this sort of history," she adds...
...situations of the original serve Adapters Thomas Meehan and Ronny Graham well, and if Director Alan Johnson is no Lubitsch, he could well reply, "Who is?" Brooks and Anne Bancroft play the old Jack Benny and Carole Lombard roles with harder edges and softer centers than their predecessors did-a criticism that could be applied to the entire enterprise. Yet the basic story remains surprisingly sturdy and entertaining in the retelling...
...Tour's tone was deep, soft, mournful, Anne Bancroft's is a fierce wail. She slips into the upper register of emoting-angry shrugs, haughty profiles, spat-out defiance-and stays there. The result is that Bancroft has nowhere to go when, at the end of each act, she needs to escalate into the play's most demanding scenes. Surely her approach is the one Director William Friedkin wanted; his work in films (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is notable for its harrowing power, not its subtlety. This leaves Max von Sydow, as the doctor, to prowl...
...have more stars than there are in Hollywood. Elizabeth Taylor spent the summer in town with The Little Foxes, and this fall a quartet of grandes dames will lend their incandescence to the stage: Katharine Hepburn in The West Side Waltz, Claudette Colbert in A Talent for Murder, Anne Bancroft in Duet for One, Joanne Woodward as Shaw's Candida. And then, and always, there are the musicals. At least 16 have been announced, including one potential gem that begins previews next week: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Hal Prince and based on the 1934 Kaufman...