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...girls as a group are a bouncy crew, with Dulcie the bounciest, Fay (Abigail Liggett) and Nancy (Alexandra Hilford) lively enough, and Maisie (Margaretha Walk) not quite with it though she tries very hard. The boys--Robert Hatfield, David Kopelman, Norman Fox and Herbert Parsons--have a grand time mostly playing themselves and dancing with the girls; but on the whole they failed to impress...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: The Boy Friend | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

Other clergymen taking part in the installation service included C. Conrad Wright, Registrar of the Harvard Divinity School, who delivered the sermon, and the Reverend Leon C. Fay, Director of the Department of Ministry of the American Unitarian Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clergyman Installed | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Rashomon (by Fay and Michael Kanin) is essentially a stage remake of the eight-year-old Japanese film classic, and some of the charm and power of the film has spilled away in transit. Culled originally from two short stories by Japan's late mordant satirist, Akutagawa, Rashomon poses a philosophic question that means all things to all men: What is truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

Rashomon, a stage version (by Fay and Michael Kanin) of the widely admired Japanese movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROAD: On the Way | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...Muriel Fay Buck Humphrey, 46, as typically calm and warm as Senator Hubert Humphrey is bouncy and brash. Married in 1936 ("It was love at first waltz"), Muriel has always been politically obliging (she turned up on TV's Masquerade Party dressed as Minnehaha). In 1954 she started the Minnesota Women for Humphrey (neighborhood coffee parties, etc.). She has been mistaken at times for Mamie Eisenhower (who once told her: "How nice and well-behaved your bangs are"), puts politics second to keeping her family (four children, aged ten to 20) together, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: HOPEFULS' HELPMATES | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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