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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room for growth of emotional intensity in the final scene, where he finally resorted to uncontrolled hysteria. Richard Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson in the role of the wayward daughter. If Miss Johnson ever learns to use her face and voice as expressively as she can use her body, she will indeed be a great actress...
...teach because it's the best way for a writer to earn a living," he said...
...hard to say what makes an audience respond to a reading. Some of the most success works were the rather dramatic ones--often a brief introduction explaining the situation helped. Kunitz, especially, came off best in poems like "The Dragonfly," "The War Against the Trees," or "The Thief," in which an easily-explained situation gave listeners something to hold...
Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Guinness and Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest dialogue ever to come across the screen. Won award for "best performance by an actress" (Simone Signoret) at Cannes; named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
...Best Reading...