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DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Hume Cronyn narrates the first of three parts, "The Sacred Lake of the Taos," dealing with New Mexico's Taos Pueblo Indians and their fight with the U.S. Government over rights to their sacred Blue Lake area...
...Russia, but his characters, while absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk...
With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...
...season's first opening, on Sept. 22, will be Edward Albee's fifth annual Broadway entry, A Delicate Balance. The author calls it a "naturalistic comedy," akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
Speeches and toasts were followed with readings by Actor Hume Cronyn and his wife Jessica Tandy, who recited from the works of such well-known authors as Sir Winston Churchill, Edmund Burke, T. S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lyndon Baines Johnson ("The Great Society asks not only how much, but how good . . ."). For the rest of the evening there was dancing. The President was not at his terpsichorean tops, but he did keep at it until...