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...Pont company reported that now it always looks for shows that are not "sad and distressful,'' since experience had taught them that listener reaction was more favorable to fey shows like Harvey than to such other Du Pont productions as Ethan Frome and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark...
...style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever was, and her unweathered face a makeup man's achievement of scarred...
Himself born and bred a member of the Establishment, Novelist Powell writes about British upper-class tribal customs with the air of a man who knows that if an outsider wants an explanation, he is not worth explaining to. He lives in a Regency house near Frome in the county of Somerset, 100 miles from his office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman...
...first singles slot Charlie Hamm bowed to Dick Hoehn son of the Dartmouth coach, 12-15, 18-13, 12-15, 15-13. Hamm came frome a 10-14 deficit in the final game to 13-14, only to loss when Hoehn made a perfect drop shot off a near-winner by Hamm...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Ethan Frome, with Raymond Massey, Shirley Booth...