Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials and playing some small parts on such dramatic shows as the U.S. Steel Hour. (On the Armstrong show about the liner Andrea Doria, Patty was the child tossed overboard by her mother.) Soon Patty had worked up to a leading part and rave notices for her performance in The Prince and the Pauper...
...Circle Theater's Zone of Silence (CBS) changed from a quiet, competent documentary into a warm and moving play. A tour through The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf turned into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed ten-year-old named Patty Duke...
Patty's familiarity with her role was understandable. Even while her taped performance in Zone was on the air last week, Patty was onstage in Boston playing a similar but far more difficult part. She is the deaf, mute and blind child of The Miracle Worker, the Broadway-bound account of Helen Keller's early years (TIME, Oct. 5). And in The Miracle Worker, Patty's achievement is even more astonishing than it was in Zone...
...runs to the alcoholic playwright (Lee Cobb), urges him to start rewriting, assaults him with such rancid boffolas as: "Your cough is the illegitimate child of you and those cigarettes." They redo the play in four weeks; the secretary is cast in the female lead, the play is a smash, the girl proposes to Gable in Sardi...
...nicest ways to get awa> from it all is to go climb a tree-every child knows that. Seen from a stout limb and framed in shade, the world seems a safer and more interesting place. But sooner or later the child must come down to earth. In this novel, the hero never comes down, and neither does Italian Author Italo Calvino. He seems to have had great fun dreaming up his fantasy; all he asks of the reader is a suspended intelligence and a taste for the bizarre...