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...Disenchanted is mainly interesting for its biographical material, but this places a greater load on its performers. Jason Robards Jr., as Manley Halliday, turns in a striking performance, especially in the later acts, but it hardly seems plausible that he could ever have been the Golden Boy of the Twenties. Rosemary Harris, as Jere, does not quite demonstrate the qualities which would induce Manley's devotion...
...acting of George Grizzard, as Shep Stearns, the young writer who accompanies Halliday, is usually a hindrance, especially in the beginning. Gizzard continually overacts and, like many of the other performers, including Robards, mistakes volume for intensity. At many points, the grating quality of Stearns' performance, make audience participation impossible. Stearns' best moments are his comedy scenes with Robards, and these scenes form the most memorable part of the play. This is, in a sense, unfortunate, since The Disenchanted is not meant to be a comedy...
Unaccountably, It Rolled. Everything seemed normal as Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, pulled out of Elizabethport at 9:57, right on schedule, with a wave to Towerman Joe Halliday, and headed east toward Newark Bay and the Jersey Central's 1.4-mile, four-track trestle and drawbridge...
...their ups and downs in the building, of which probably the best-remembered was the late and occasionally lamented (except by the handful of Cambridge citizens who were badly "bitten" in frequent drives for money) Brattle Theatre Company, which staged 58 plays in the period 1948-52. Bryant Halliday '49 was general manager of the Brattle Theatre Company's last legitimate season in the summer of 1952, and his part- ner, Cyrus I. Harvey Jr. '47, had also been connected with the group when it was the Harvard Theatre Workshop...
...diplomat-to-be's wife, Betsey Gushing Whitney, heard a special tape recording of the tributes paid her husband at the dinner. Among the notable banquet guests: CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley and high-styled Barbara Gushing Paley, Long Island Newsday Publisher Alicia Patterson, Broadway Producer Richard Halliday and his musicomedienne wife Mary Martin, retiring G.O.P. National Committee Chairman Leonard W. Hall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), New York's freshman Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Herald Tribune President-Editor Ogden R. Reid, TV Comic Sid Caesar...