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...characterization, such as Ernest McKinnon's Jack, built by alternating laughing and mumbling, evokes nothing more than the character of a laugher and a mumbler. This effect may be what the actor strived for. If it is, the acting is so false and strained that the audience is jarred. Franklyn Spodak and Herbert Davis fare better as the intern and orderly. The problem the cast had with remembering lines has, hopefully, been solved by now--for until an actor knows where he is physically in the script, he cannot know where he is emotionally in the play...
Died. General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire...
Bill refuses to think this of Carlye, but his embassy boss, Franklyn Armbruster (Fred Astaire), insists that he snoop on his notorious landlady. When Bill overhears Carlye phone for two men to carry out something that weighs 160 lbs., he gets rather queasy about the evening cookout. He sloshes his Scotch from cheek to cheek like a chipmunk hoarding for a famine and finally gulps it like a plug of tobacco. His pouring hand is so erratic with the lighter fluid that he practically charcoal-broils the house...
Pointing a finger at Schoolteacher Franklyn Olson, 23, the justice of the peace intoned: "Young man, your crime is as serious as if you had given them marijuana cigarettes." Olson's crime: assigning five schoolboys in Thompson, Mich, to read The Stranger, by France's late Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Albert Camus. Olson's sentence: a $100 fine and 90 days in the county jail...
...Abundant Life." This balderdash was devised by Temple Collegiate's proprietor, William Franklyn Wolsey, 56, who calls himself Archbishop John I of Vancouver. Born in Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter...