Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother Goose (Cyril Ritchard, Celeste Holm, Boris Karloff; Caedmon). Arch without being cute, this trio skips through the old rhymes like verbal jump ropes. In gleeful self-amazement, Actor Ritchard triple-tongues Peter Piper's pickled peppers ("I didn't break down, you see"). Hershy Kay's musical punctuation is pert and pertinent, unfailingly delights, never intrudes...
Peter Pan (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). For the 3rd season, Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard star in a revival of the Barrie classic, as adapted by Jerome Robbins. Narrator: Lynn Fontanne. Color...
Giggling & Mysticism. Barrister Christmas Humphreys, longtime head of the British Buddhist Society, counters that Koestler cannot talk about Zen from the outside as if it were a religion or a philosophy, when it is nothing less than enlightenment. Critic Cyril Connolly, while praising the book, suggests that Koestler has the "metaphysical shortcoming" of not being able temperamentally to deny the existence of the physical world. But Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung surprisingly praises Koestler's "needful act of debunking, for which he deserves our gratitude...
...Partner Mantell went to London last summer to round up talent, much of it from the Old Vic and other repertory companies. Their curtain raiser is a moving and brilliant Macbeth, starring Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The two-hour, two-record production was followed by Othello, with Cyril Cusack and Frank Silvera; and The Taming of the Shrew, with Margaret Leighton and Trevor Howard. Early next month: Sir John Gielgud's The Winter's Tale...
Forty is the age of saints and suicides, according to Critic Cyril Connolly. Neither the idea nor the particular fates would ever have occurred to Maynard Wallace ("Wink1') Marshall, an urbane NBS nightly newscaster whose voice-charmed life demonstrates "how well a reasonably brainy man can do if he just doesn't use his brains.'' However. Wink does have an age problem, and it is all tied up with sex and suburbia...