Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timely subject matter adds interest rather than importance to the play. The Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument...
Afterwards, the bishop led the party to the Cathedral House, where 1,200 clergy and laity of the diocese had gathered to watch a radio recording of Dark Victory, with Celeste Holm, and Walter Abel playing the leads and Walter Hampden as announcer. Next month the recording will be heard over 549 stations, including the Mutual Broadcasting System, as part of an ambitious effort to reach the 70 million Americans who belong to no church...
...series will start Oct. 1 with Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Walter Hampden. At the close of the program a voice will ask: "How can we make sense out of this confused and troubled world? . . The place to begin is with ourselves." The voice, referring to "Cyrano's lifelong, self-denying love for Roxane," says that Cyrano made sense out of his existence "not by crying out in bitterness over his physical ugliness . . . [but] by making something out of himself." Listeners are told that it will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church...
Beacon Light (Sun. 10 p.m., Mutual). The Grand Lodge of Masons breaks into radio to dramatize its campaign for rheumatic fever research. Guests: Walter Hampden, Reinald Werrenrath...
...Walter Hampden, romantic Shakespeare-&-Cyrano stage favorite of the '20s & '30s, decided it was time to retire, at 67. From California, stately, large-gestured Actor Hampden made a little curtain speech damning the modern fashion of "underplaying" a role, darkly warned that "this movement can result only in the hobbling of dramatic...