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Graziano. This is particularly unfortunate because in its first year on TV, Celanese has put on more grownup drama than almost any of its rivals. There have been plays by Eugene O'Neill (Ah, Wilderness!, Anna Christie), Maxwell Anderson (Winterset, Saturday's Children), Elmer Rice (Street Scene) and Robert Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest...
...strong, quiet stories of Jewish family life in the U.S. Here, for the first time, Author Calisher seems really sure of her people and places, and what she feels about them. In the last and best of the stories, The Middle Drawer, she searches into the need of a grownup daughter to be reconciled at last to her unsympathetic mother, before the mother dies of cancer. In these, Author Calisher shows that she has more than just a pretty talent for diverting imitations...
...bully grew up in a broken home; his mother neglected him one day and besieged him with affection the next. Marcello diverted himself by killing animals. "It was from cruelty that he derived the only pleasures that did not seem . . . insipid." At 13, he suffered an unforgettable shock: a grownup invited Marcello to his room to see a revolver, then began making homosexual passes. Marcello, in a panic of fear and fascination, picked up the revolver, fired and fled...
...Named Desire (Charles K. Feldman; Warner) is an impressive adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning 1947 Broadway hit about a fate-battered Southern belle in the last agonies of degradation. Though the movie has its flaws, it can claim a merit rare in Hollywood films: it is a grownup, gloves-off drama of real human beings...
Former Screen Moppet Margaret O'Brien, her familiar pigtails fluffed out in a new coiffure and looking quite grownup for 14, stopped in Manhattan enroute to Britain long enough to give photographers a teen-age pose. She plans to return in October for a four-month tour (at $3,500 a week) doing scenes from Shakespeare, Cinderella and Alice...