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...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...
...seems that The Chalk Garden, currently playing at the Boston Summer Theatre, "unites the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, on a stage for the first time in half a century." As one who wasn't around 50 years ago, and who until the other night had never seen either of the Gishes perform, I can't be too impressed by this theatrical precedent. I can report, however, that the Misses Lillian and Dorothy are both fine actresses, and that they make The Chalk Garden a sparkling, engaging play...
...Boston's New England Mutual Hall, changing casts will offer one-week stands of varying fare, such as "The Chalk Garden" with Lillian and Dorothy Gish...
...Among its advisers: Performers Raymond Massey and Lillian Gish, Poets W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore, Conductors Charles Munch and Dimitri Mitropoulos, Painter Robert Motherwell...
...excellent cast-Franchot Tone, Lillian Gish, Ethel Waters, Janice Rule-was able to suggest the last-gasp despairs of a dying order in the Old South, but the violence that flashes only fitfully in the novel seemed too concentrated to be real in the TV play...