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...Mystery. Actress Maureen Stapleton also stumbled on the hazard of a bad play presented over NBC's Philco Playhouse (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Incident in July is the poor second best of Novelist-Playwright Calder Willingham, who adapted his own novel, End as a Man, a couple of seasons ago into an unexpected Broadway hit. Incident is about a married woman, incapable of having children, who pours her maternal affection on a 19-year-old boy, causes a painful scandal, finally realizes that she ought to adopt a child. The writing was aimless, the plot pointless, and Actress...
Convincingness, the sine qua non of illustration, led even Mobile-Maker Alexander Calder to resort to the recognizable for his illustrations of a recent edition of Aesop's Fables. Calder's depiction of a vain crow being adorned with peacock feathers by his feathered friends has more wit than force, and looks more like a bent-wire construction than a drawing, but any child can grasp it and enjoy...
...Calder's mobiles convey a feeling of insecurity by emphasizing the instability of the ground, they make one aware at the same time that this can be overcome by developing man's natural sense of balance. Shapes which appear to float in space are actually highly controlled in the artist's universe...
Beside Mobiles the exhibit at the Graduate School of Design includes a number of "Stabiles," the name John Arp gave Calder's stationary sculpture. "Big Ear" is an example of how bulky these pieces can get and is an interesting contrast to the airiness of the mobiles. The wire "Stabiles" have always been noted for their humor, and "Reclining Nude" and "Polo Rider" are no exception...
...best advice for enjoying Calder's whimsically titled sculpture was given by the artist himself: "That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs...