Word: haydon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presenting Julie Haydon in Dale Eunson and Hagar Wilde's psychological thriller, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has spared none of the trimmings. Miss Haydon has long been a favorite with both Broadway and summer stock patrons; Andrew Mack's setting is bound to bring designing offers from the main stem, and the acting of the supporting cast is of an unusually high caliber...
...rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking ground porterage, to foil enemy infiltrations, they depended solely upon air supply. Tried out by British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate's daring Burma raiders last spring, practiced by Chinese infantry and U.S. aviators back in India, air supply...
...Japan. Far ahead, Chinese combat troops under U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner ranged through the jungles, driving back Jap patrols. As the road advanced further into enemy-held territory security guards had to be mounted over the laboring Hairy Ears, who kept their own guns constantly at hand...
...sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...
...more rewarding because it's simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls. But the scene, quilted down with words, is merely touching where it ought to be intense...