Word: curtness
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...commanding figure of the evening was clearly Paul Hoffman, whose Abner was butchy, lovable, and believable. Although a bit stiff now and then, he displayed a grace and skill that surpassed his All-Ivy performances as a guard last fall. Another compelling character was Curt von Kann's Marrin' Sam. Like Mr. Hoffman, Mr. von Kann looked the part, and he played unerringly on its many humorous possibilities...
...though he strongly foreshadows the sulking self-mockery in his later pieces. Resemblances to later plays in A Country Scandal may be partly due to the able work of Chekhov's translater Alex Szogyi. Szogyi judiciously pruned the manuscript down from six to two and a half hours of curt speeches in contemporay idiom, broken by endless exits and entrances. The "few liberties" which the translater took "for the sake of fashioning a coherent play" almost certainly improved on the original, bringing A Country Scandal closer to Chekhov's mature comedies. And since director Frank Cassidy has freely interpreted Szogyi...
...PONT SHOW OF THE WEEK (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A man whose son died in a German extermination camp hires an Englishman (John Mills) to hound a former Nazi (Curt Jurgens) when he leaves prison after serving 15 years for war crimes. Color...
...finished. "And how was the meal, sir?" asked the manager. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, 45, couldn't help blowing off steam, so much in fact that the waitress was summarily fired. And when her case came up for review, Freeman reluctantly confirmed his complaint. She was "very cross, curt and sullen," he wrote in a letter. "My wife, having worked as a waitress, is more than understanding and tolerant. In this case, however, the lady in question was clearly out of line." Last May President Kennedy named former Nautilus Skipper William Anderson, 42, to head the National Service Corps...
...Consultation. Washington sent Paris one of the briefest diplomatic notes on record, a curt, 150-word message that deplored the French maneuver as "unwise and untimely." Back came a five-line reply that stiffly acknowledged the U.S. note without bothering to give French reasons for the news. Presumably, De Gaulle was saving his explanation for one of his rare news conferences, scheduled for this week...