Word: cowardly
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Ford Star Playhouse (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS and CBS Radio). This Happy Breed, starring Noel Coward, Edna Best...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Noel Coward and Dr. Vannevar Bush...
...usually triumph at the beginning. When Dick later decides to be heroic he does so just because he feels like it, and not for the love of the minister's beautiful young wife, as he should. And when the elderly minister should become heroic, he's a coward. In the end, however, the minister appears with pistols, and both he and Dick Dudgeon find their "true vocations...
...interesting, but also slowly enough to have something left for the end. Two of the three principals have solved their problem well. Robert Jordan gives a very impressive performance as a pacifist newspaperman with an exterior compounded of confidence and arrogance. Yet underneath his surface the man is a coward, and his fear eventually leads him to hell. One of the two women, however, clearly belongs there from the very beginning. As portrayed by Charlotte Clark, her personality appears to contain only venom, with lesbianism as the motive force of her poison. Miss Clark does not always convey the viciousness...
...unusually serious kind. In his direction, Lewis R. Foster has managed to make ideas as well as characters come clear, and when the lines are especially good, his actors tactfully subordinate themselves to what they are saying. Don Taylor and Wendell Corey play neatly in tandem as the cowardly hero and the heroic coward, and France's Nicole Maurey does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human being of the sentimental prostitute. But it is Mickey Rooney who brings off the best scene: a crap game so shatteringly funny that it almost breaks up the picture...