Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presentation that attempts to rise above the one-dimensional "package series" should be attributed a certain amount of esteem even if it falls short of its goal. Mr. Frankenheimer and the splendid cast may have lacked in many respects by your reviewer's Utopian standards, but they brought a rare spark of beauty, truth and creativity to a usually insipid television schedule...
...suave Scott Newhall, also a member of a leading San Francisco family. As executive editor, Newhall scrapped the Chronicle's old makeup of sober type marching row on row for a blaze of bold, black headlines, launched syndicated Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren (TIME, Jan. 20, 1957), assembled a cast of 20 home-town columnists. "International news," declares Thieriot, "is not what people want to read at breakfast...
...everybody knows, novels about the South must have a cast of tormented characters, preferably demented, a generous supply of sex, mostly illicit, and some Negroes who hang around and endure. Then, if you really want to pull out the stops, add some crafty politicians who exploit the race situation out of callous disregard for their constituents. No Place To Run has all this and more, being billed as a "tense, extraordinarily powerful novel of demagoguery and personal conflict in Mississippi...
...hesitate to attend tonight's performance even if the play's text is all Greek to you. The Classical Players' production is unflaggingly engrossing to both eye and ear; and the entire cast and personnel can justifiably repeat the Chorus' concluding sentiment: "We've done our job very fairly indeed today...
...cast struggled energetically with their parts, but except for Arthur Papas' amusing role, everyone grew wearisome quickly. Alvarez Bulos, as the king, had some difficulties with lines, but otherwise was deft and urbane. As his daughter, O'Brien Nicholas looked and sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except...