Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to playing conniving old dames, Judith Anderson is matchless. So Charlton Heston found out in NBC's adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Elizabeth the Queen, Maxwell Anderson's 1930 tragedy with Dame Judith Anderson as Elizabeth I and Charlton Heston as Lord Essex, her lover...
What saved the week was a BBC dramatization of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, carried by 35 U.S. public TV channels. Thanks in large part to authentic exteriors shot in India and an impeccable cast headed by Dame Sybil Thorndike, this was as sharp a TV drama as U.S. audiences have seen all season...
...Notre Dame Coach Johnny Dee predicts that at least three men from the U.C.L.A. squad will be picked in the first round of this year's pro draft. And those will not include Alcindor, Allen, or Shackelford-all of whom are juniors and thus ineligible. There is hardly an expert who does not expect the Bruins to sail through an undefeated season: in last week's two wire-service polls, only one vote for the No. 1 spot went to a team other than U.C.L.A...
...screeched. Yet the shattering of conventional concert categories was exhilarating, and the music at its best did reach White's goal of achieving "some great moments," notably in a delightful collaboration between the Pro Musica and Circus Maximus on Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century song Douce Dame Jolie...