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...Susan's husband, Herrmann makes a proper and a touching saint out of a Milquetoast. But no one could fully compete with Kate Nelligan. She steals the evening and puts it in her purse. This Canadian-born actress makes a coruscating New York debut. Her moods are mercurial, and her stage presence is formidable. In this vehicle of trenchant thought, wry polemics and caustic wit, she is the powerful engine of internal combustion. -By T.E. Kalem
DIED. Glenn Gould, 50, eccentric, commanding piano virtuoso celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, and one of the first classical performers to concentrate on the LP recording as an art form; of a stroke; in Toronto. A Canadian-born Wunderkind who was playing the piano at 3 and composing at 5, Gould won critical acclaim as a young man for performances that pulsed with rhythmic dynamism and exuberance while retaining clarity and subtlety. He was almost as famous for such oddball habits as wearing gloves, scarf and overcoat in summer. Gould ended his concert career in 1964, concentrating after that...
...anchor of the unique and highly acclaimed Public Broadcasting news program, the MacNeil/Lehrer Report. MacNeil has trekked around the globe as a foreign correspondent. The Canadian-born journalist began his career in London working for Independent Television News, moving on to the Reuters wire service before joining NBC in 1960. He shocked the TV news world seven years later by quiting the network and abandoning a shot at an anchor position. MacNeil said he was disgusted with NBC's news operation and that of its rivals...
...Berlin Ballet company had performed Firebird and the pas de deux from Don Quixote before a packed Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and it was time for the orchestra to take a break. Helen Hagnes, 30, an attractive, blond, Canadian-born violinist told a friend that she was going to see Valery Panov, the Soviet-born choreographer and principal dancer for the Berlin Ballet, to ask him to pose for her sculptor husband, Janis Mintiks...
DIED. Philip Guston, 66, influential U.S. painter; of a heart attack; in Woodstock, N. Y. The Canadian-born son of Russian immigrants, Guston joined Jackson Pollock, a schoolmate of his in Los Angeles, and other contemporaries like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko in forging the abstract expressionist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In the past decade he returned from his often dreamlike works to representational painting. His explanation: "I got sick and tired of all the purity. I wanted to tell stories...