Word: camera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some nights, everything just goes right. I Am a Camera is very funny, but it is more than a ramshackle frame on which gag lines are hung. Playwright John Van Druten found some real people in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, and around them he built a real play. He does not go very deeply into the question he raises of hedonism versus social involvement, but it is nice to have an issue to fill the brief spaces between laughs...
Edward Dmytryk maintains the integrity of Irwin Shaw's World War II novel--tracing the lives of a young German officer and two American G.I.'s (via a number of transcontinental camera switches) to their final encounter on the French countryside...
...news of television is not confined to what is seen on the end of the picture-tube. All that viewers saw or heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted; but this erroneous remark set off an off-camera scratching match between Columnist Winchell, Maxwell and Paar that was as ludicrous as anything visible on TV. See TV & RADIO, The Titans of Babel...
...crumpled suit says: "This is Oscar Levant speaking. It's an identification that I have to make because I suffer from amnesia." Twice a week, in a pint-sized studio at Hollywood's KCOP-TV, Levant snaps at his guests, snarls at the camera, squints at the "20 outpatients" of his audience, sneers at his sponsors, scowls at the world, sits at his piano, twitching, squirming, blinking, playing. Says he: "I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy." Only eight weeks old, The Oscar Levant Show is a smash...
...Good Woman was originally scheduled for production this May, but was dropped after its director, Charles L. Mee '60, took a leave of absence. For its fourth production, the H.D.C. joined with the Independent Players to produce John van Druten's I Am a Camera, opening this Wednesday...