Word: fenton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Fleur Fenton Cowles (real name: Florence Freedman), 45, associate editor of Look magazine from 1947 to November 1955; and Tom Meyer, 37, director of a British timber firm; she for the fourth time, he for the first, one month after her divorce from her third husband, Look Publisher Gardner Cowles; in Bel Air, Calif...
...category of more or less minor roles. Robert House and Fenton Hollander handle themselves with gusto and understanding. Margaret Groome, as Olga, misses her difficult characterization by a hairsbreadth. Other members of the cast are unable to overcome an apparent lack either in preparation or understanding of their roles...
After nearly nine years of ostensibly happy though businesslike marriage Publisher (Look) Gardner Cowles, 52, and his editor (Flair) wife, ex-Adwoman Fleur Fenton Cowles, surprised even their intimates by agreeing to "a very amiable, friendly separation ... no immediate plans for divorce." A girl wonder at 16 (when she landed a $100-a-week advertising job), Fleur recently signed a new three-year contract to stay on as associate editor of Look, will also remain as a director of Cowles Magazines...
...once again impressive acting came to the rescue and gave The Tribe some fascinating moments. Bill Wharton was especially appealing as a diffident little savage, and Carol Cohen expressed the tribe's philosophy with remarkable naturalness. As other savage, Dick Merlo, Fenton Hollander, Mimi Martinez, and Erich Segal were all suitably oivilized, while Ann Rand and bill Soring played the missionary's daughter and an American trader with the proper uncouthness. As the missionary, Earle Edgerton displayed just the right mixture of theological dogmatism and personal uncertainty...
This was not the case with the Tennessee Williams play, a choice beyond the abilities of the actors and the director. Although John Bernard, Michael Harwood and Fenton Hollander all revealed a possibility of success in their portrayals, failure to pick up lines and a tendency to throw away important statements thorough in articulation or misplaced emphasis prevented the work from hanging together as it should have...