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George Bernard Shaw's comedy "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," directed by Joseph Everingham, opens Wednesday, August 1, as the third offering of the Harvard Summer School Players' season at the Loeb Drama Center. The play, set in North Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...
Donald Soule's settings include a tropical garden on the coast of Morocco and an abandoned Moorish castle where Brassbound's band of thieves and cutthroats hide out. Costumes are by Lewis Smith. David Cole plays the Cockney thug, Drinkwater, with Peter Haskell as the Scottish missionary, Rankin, and Kenneth Tigar, Roger Gans and William FitzHugh are in the cast...
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion, and Richard Wilbur's verse translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope are also scheduled...
...brassbound rites at the White House, the Air Force's outgoing Chief of Staff, General Thomas D. White, 59, was greeted by some incoming hardware: a massive trophy established in his name to honor aerospace achievement. Besides delivering a retirement tribute to 41-year Veteran White (his successor: General Curtis E. LeMay), President Kennedy inspected the bronze statue of a mesomorphic figure hurling a rocket with one hand and snagging a nose cone with the other, quipped sadly: "He looks like he has a strong back...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). G. B. Shaw's report on the attempted taming of a typically Shavian rogue. Captain Brassbound's Conversion stars Christopher Plummer and Greer Garson...