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...them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice of the working class making itself heard, and the officers almost blanch at its menace...
...agent (Alan Bates) from the insurance company! Is the agent merely what he says he is: a man on vacation? Or is he really playing cat-and-mouse with the culprits? If so, the hero decides grimly, two can play at a game. So can three, and Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) is pretty hard to beat. The tension builds nicely, the shocks come pat when they're supposed to, and the last reel combines irony, scenery and the internal-combustion engine in a getaway with...
...hint that Frost's relentless self-preoccupation lay at the heart of the tragedies that beset most of the people close to him. His sister and one of his children went insane; another daughter died from tuberculosis. After failing at farming and writing, Frost's only son Carol shot himself. Frost had spent the previous night assuring the boy that he was not a failure. Duly reported to Louis Untermeyer, Carol's last words to his father have a ring of true horror. "You always get the last word...
Thursday, September 5 Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Lee Meriwether, Miss America of 1955, and Carol Lynley star in the story of a runner-up beauty queen's unsuccessful attempts to break into the big time. Repeat...
...original musical, Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah! Austro-Hungarian soldiers, oddly enough, took part in the American Civil War, and the show centers around a Union soldier and the daughter of a Hungarian officer, garrisoned in St. Louis in 1861 (spring). Another original musical is A Girl to Remember, starring Carol Burnett as a Hollywood script girl in the '30s, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...