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Kathryn Humphreys as Helen also offers a few surprises. Her beauty is gamin rather than statuesque, and she plays Helen as if she had just stepped out of "Born Yesterday." Unfortunately, however, the lines do not always fit the Judy Holiday-dumb blonde stereotype. As a result the meaning of the lines is occasionally lost together with some of the story's coherence...
...Helen Baird (Shirley Booth), has an affair with Helen's son, is driven to a suicide attempt when the boy discards her. Having found "four successive hit plays in corners of the commonplace overlooked by his fellow playwrights," wrote the Washington Evening Star, "Inge goes for a fifth in A Loss of Roses." ¶ Goodbye Charlie, bought for the movies while it was still rolling out of George (Seven Year Itch) Axelrod's typewriter, was a moneymaker before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most...
...while pretending to hymn the heroes of the past. In this view, Agamemnon, leader of the Achaeans, is the prize buffoon. And when Hector, the Trojan leader, offers to stake the whole war on a single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen by lot, he and Hector spar for a minute and then agree it is really too dark to fight...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater...
What Would You Say? Patty worked hard to get ready for her tryout. boned up on Helen Keller's early problems. When she appeared for her audition, she was thoroughly prepared. "What would you say if you were Helen Keller?" asked Director Arthur Penn. Answered Patty with calm assurance: "I wouldn't say anything. I couldn't talk...