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Into this world after 23 years away from it, bursts the spinster's girlhood beau-a selfish, tinny charmer (Fredric March) who dabbles at art and meddles in lives-with the rich wife who knows him for what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...
Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller's Enemy is a shortened, sharpened, slanged-up version, with some new blood replacing the old, flaccid, translator's English. And Fredric March plays Stockmann with helpful vigor. But Miller has given the play a more agitated but less striking face. His version is not so much bitter satire as topical melodrama (with some of the new blood smeared on the characters' foreheads). It is not so much an affirmation of minority rightness as a plea for minority rights; it suggests a man persecuted less for telling the unpalatable truth than...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Fredric March and Barbara Bel Geddes...
Then Kirkpatrick went on to explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...
Impertinence. The Nation's editors gave "a number of prominent psychiatrists" advance copies of the Ferman article and invited them to reply. Most refused. But from outspoken Psychiatrist-Author Fredric (The Show of Violence) Wertham came outspoken agreement: "What she writes rings true. In fact, I have encountered literally dozens of similar cases . . . Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts are the only physicians who blame the patient-or at least his relatives-when they do not cure...