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...with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year-old Mark Carson acquits himself admirably in his amusing Latin lesson with Evans...
...casino operators in the Carson City-Reno-Lake Tahoe area were gnawing the manicured arcs right off their well-kept fingernails. For neither the first nor the last time in the history of Nevada, the only state in the U.S. where gambling is legal in nearly all its forms (prohibited: dog racing, jai alai), an organized band had figured out a way to fulfill the fondest dream of hundreds of thousands of lemon-loathing laymen: hitting the jackpot on the slot machine, otherwise known as the one-armed bandit...
...contract with Top Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most...
Thurs., Feb. 5 Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Berkeley Square, John Balderston's sentimental compression of time past and time present, is a little old by now, but John Kerr, Jeannie Carson and Edna Best dress it up handsomely. Color...
...actually choice: "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." But times have changed since Anderson's masterpiece appeared in 1919. Nowadays it is precisely the twisted fruits of humanity-as plucked from the tree of American life by such as Eugene O'Neill, Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams-that command the commercial market, leaving the rosy, chubby ones to go hang. Indeed. Author Herlihy (a TVeteran and co-author of last season's Broadway near miss, Blue Denim) might seem to have arrived in the twisted-apple orchard a decade too late...