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...Beta Kappa Junior Eight includes the following: Paul G. Bamberg of Eliot House and Middletown, R.I.; David S. Cole, of Lowell House and New York, N.Y.; Lawrence J. Corwin, of Winthrop House and Teaneck, N.J.; George A. Goldberg, of Quincy House and Mt. Vernon, N.Y.; Stephen C. Harrison, of Lowell House and Baltimore, Md.; Gary H. Lindberg, of Dudley House and Minneapolis, Minn.; David H. Sachs, of Leverett House and Yonkers, N.Y.; Raymond A. Sokolov, Jr., of Lowell House and Detroit, Mich...
...Norman Corwin has adapted it for the stage and Bette Davis and Leif Erickson act it out, Sandburg's world remains dramatically mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails...
...Story of Ruth (Samuel 6. Engel; 20th Century-Fox) is that rare film, a Bible story done with taste and without lions. It is true that if Writer Norman Corwin has not actually jazzed up the Old Testament's four brief chapters, he has at least given them a recognizable beat-here a child sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells...
What atrocities they have not committed on history, Writers Norman Corwin and Giorgio Prosperi have dealt out to the script. Neither evidently thought that an account of the Goya-Alba romance need include mention of her husband, or of Goya's wife and 20-odd children. The characters that do manage to squeeze into the script get lines so cliché-ridden that even the Count of Monte Cristo would wince ("I'll teach her who's the Queen of Spain!" cries the Queen of Spain). Actor Franciosa brings a certain expression to the role of Goya...
...difficulty with ex-Radio Writer Corwin's play is that the drama is in the issues and only fitfully on the stage. While the theater thrives on speech, it tends to wither on a constant diet of speeches. But if The Rivalry is necessarily talky, it is rarely small-talky. And Playwright Corwin could scarcely have picked better vocal foils or more dramatic look-unlikes than Richard Boone's Lincoln and Martin Gabel's Douglas...