Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANDERSON D. CLARK Covenant Presbyterian Church Madison...
Subs & Surrenders. As a Torch planner, "General Lem" joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which...
Nothing of the sort can be said for anyone else in the cast, though John Lasell as Jack and Wendell Clark as Algy do some nice things after they have gotten over their first-act stiffness. Mr. Lasell has no sense of Jack's earnestness, his utterly sincere hypocrisy, his damnable stuffiness; Mr. Clark copes somewhat better with Algy, but cannot quite hit off his incorrigibly cheeky lightmindedness. As a result, they appear as a set of almost interchangeably cheerful young men. Gretchen Kanne misses the hothouse bloom of Gwendolyn, who exists in and through Society like an elegant bacterium...
...performances are one and all solidly professional, although a couple of the ladies give an occasional impression of being younger than they are supposed to be. As the Director, Leading Lady, and Leading Man of Pirandello's theatrical company, Dean Gitter, Gretchen Kanne, and Wendell Clark delineate three phonies without ever a phony stroke in their performances. Mr. Gitter's role is more extensively characterized than the others, and he brings to it the right sort of pudgy excitability and pseudo-suavity. Ray Reinhardt, Dora Landey, Richard Mathews, and Helen England are the most prominent of the Characters, and they...
...Leonetti , said Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, was unaware of his shady backing, later got a different manager and a growing reputation. Nonetheless, ABC, apparently un nerved by the Washington testimony, yanked Leonetti from a scheduled appearance last week on the Dick Clark Show...