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...Save the Plowboy?, by Frank D. Gilroy, slices close to the center of three lives that war, marriage and illusions have haphazardly drawn together...
...Save the Plowboy?, by Frank D. Gilroy, slices close to the center of three lives that war, marriage and illusions have haphazardly drawn together...
...Save the Plowboy? (by Frank D. Gilroy). The husband, Albert, guzzles false courage out of beer cans. The wife, Helen, darns his socks and whines testily, "When was the last time you cut your toenails?" She is not so much asking a question as emitting a fixed tone signal, an S 0 S of day in, day out desperation. "Death or a new stove, I'll settle for either one," she says. The shabby New York apartment is like a tank of formaldehyde preserving the couple's dead marriage, dead hopes, and dead selves...
Despite O. Henry-like plot twists. Plowboy is a gritty and gripping play. Frank D. Gilroy sees character with 20-20 vision and he can shape the grey, doughy speech of the inarticulate into revealing patterns. Gerald O'Loughlin makes Albert a hollow but pitiable clown; the burntout, empty eyes of Rebecca Darke's Helen are as lifeless as pits on the moon; William Smithers' grey-faced Larry has the strength to bear the unbearable...
...Marquand's Sincerely, Willis Wayde was not the best butter out of the churn of U.S. letters' smoothest old smoothy, but it was creamy enough to provide superior TV drama last week over CBS's Playhouse go (Thurs., 9:30-11:00 p.m.). Writer Frank D. Gilroy had the sense to stick close to Marquand's story, and the talent to weave many of the bland Marquand nuances of class and manner into a go-minute teleplay that had consistency, pace and believability. Good direction (by Vincent Done-hue) carried the story past Gilroy...