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...violence. A stranger appears, announcing with grinning malevolence that the handyman has escaped from an insane asylum and must return. When the stranger pulls a knife, Thompson kills him. The rest of the play shows Thompson, acquitted by a jury, bleakly, desperately dragging his sickly wife (Olivia de Havilland) from one neighbor's house to another to defend himself and his deed. Then he blows his brains...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Katherine Anne Porter's novella, Noon Wine, takes on added body with performances by Jason Robards Jr., Olivia de Havilland, Per Oscarsson and Theodore Bikel...
Died. Francis Trounson Hearle, 78, co-founder and onetime chairman (1950-54) of Britain's vast De Havilland Aircraft Co., an ex-mechanic who helped Sir Geoffrey de Havilland build his first biplane in 1908, later masterminded D.H.'s massive World War II output, including 7,781 Mosquitoes, the famed twin-engined plywood bombers that could hit 404 m.p.h.; of a ruptured aorta; in Hertfordshire, England...
Wednesday, September 1 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).* "Paris Exclusive: Fashions '66, with Olivia de Havilland," marks the first advance filming by a television news team of the winter showings at Christian Dior and Jeanne Lanvin in Paris...
...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...