Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night when "The Spider King" (Robert Morley), as history knows him, sits spinning his political web. "We are about to embark on a foul venture," he murmurs to a cackling familiar. "Foul and necessary, fit only for gypsies-and kings." The venture involves the betrayal of a lady fair (Kay Kendall) to a villain dark (Duncan Lament), and incidentally the death of Durward, her armed escort. However, when the sinister birds pounce on their prey, the hero gives his all for love and sends them napping back to the knaviary. In the end it is Durward, the fly, who frees...
...Always Fair Weather. A sharp little musical that needles TV; with Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd (TIME, Sept...
...lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead...
Always there was the immediacy of things happening this very minute, but the real brilliancy of Wide World may lie in its avoidance of the TV interview. The only one attempted, at the Texas Fair, proved again that-given a microphone and someone to interview-an announcer can turn any subject into a crashing bore. The words needed in Wide World were supplied by Dave Garroway and kept to a literate minimum...
Thanks to good acting, a fair amount of the kid stuff is amusing. And on the serious side, Patricia Neal as the mother and Betty Lou Keim as Bridget do very well by their roles. But even as popular play writing, A Roomful of Roses remains uncomfortably two-toned. It should be more serious or less, more adroit in its emotional scenes or more honest. It is not sharp enough theater to play fast and loose with reality...