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Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The S.S. American Dream," with John Larch, Gretchen Wyler and Madeleine Sherwood. Repeat...
...Chief Charles Mohr, 33. who spent two years until last August as New Delhi bureau chief and traveled to practically every part of the subcontinent, flew back to work on this week's Nehru cover story; as he was packing in Hong Kong, his nine-year-old daughter Gretchen asked: "Why do you have to go home...
Married. Jim Jordan, 64, radio's Fibber McGee, for 21 years (1935-56) the incorrigible comic blowhard of 79 Wistful Vista; and Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, 52, widow of Dialect Comedian Yogi Yorgenson; both for the second time (Jordan's first wife Marian, who was also Fibber McGee's Molly, died last year after 43 years of marriage); in Honolulu...
...characterizes Beethoven's later quartet writing. The liveliness of the work seemed to wake up the performers; they started with good, solid attacks and supplied plenty of dynamic ups and downs. Cellist Lawrence Hamilton's full tone and adequate technique supplied a foundation to the ensemble, and second violinist Gretchen Anner played her solo in the trio of the third movement accurately, if without inspiration. But the violist remained out of tune; her solos with the cellist were rather more contrapuntal than the composer intended. Still, the patter-song theme of the fourth movement saved the performance. Both musicians...
...would even have gone so far as to say that Mr. France was the best thing in the show, had not Gretchen Cryer, as Vera, his high society mistress, rivalled him so closely. Her part was much different, requiring a sophisticated irony and a worldly resignation. Miss Cryer proved herself both singer and actress, entrancing the audience with the cool eroticism of Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, and handling Vera's jaded sarcasm with elegant ease. Her imitation of a Bronx gun moll in the first act was one of the most intelligent bits of broad humor seen around here...