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...role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time on Studio One's Twelve Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned it into a crisp and exciting melodrama. Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind. Among the others, Walter Abel, Edward Arnold, John Beal and Paul Hartman played interesting variations...
...ordinary currents of human action; a being readily capable of violent revolt or supreme sacrifice, a man, solitary, austere, to whom existence is no more than a duty, yet a duty to be faithfully discharged. He was indeed a dweller upon the mountain tops where the air is cold, crisp, rarefied, and where the view on clear days commands all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them...
...ticket to drink to its success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins, and Carl Walters' ceramic dog. The dog-an inconsequential thing done perfectly-was the best...
Mendès was crisp and matter of fact, like a company president notifying stockholders of a sad liquidation of property. "Within a few days," he began, "blood will cease to flow, and we will no longer see our youth decimated over there. This is the end of a nightmare...
Percy, a Hackenfeller's Ape,* is the subject of British Author Brigid Brophy's first novel, but the theme of her crisp witty satire is Man-his birth in pain his absurdity in marriage, his glory in freedom. Her ape is no ordinary one; its kind is the closest thing to Homo sapiens that the animal kingdom has produced. For that reason, Percy and Edwina are the center of impassioned scientific interest...