Word: holbrook
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...Mackerel Plaza, a pre-Broadway tryout of a new comedy by William Mc-Cleery, is based on Peter De Vries's novel about a widowed clergyman whose plans to remarry are frustrated by a campaign to name the town square after his first wife. Hal (Mark Twain) Holbrook stars. Cyril Ritchard directs. Westport. Conn.; Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; Fayetteville, N.Y.; Louisville...
Also elected were Michael H.P. Belknap, of Leverett House and Winnetka, Ill., Wade S. Hooker, Jr., of Lowell House and Holbrook, Mass., James G. Slaughter, of Quincy House and Haskell, Tex., and Loren Z. Clayman, of Winthrop House and Chelsea, Mass...
Like a Bride's Trousseau. Most of these baroque horrors are gradually being dropped from congregational repertories and eased out of new hymnals. In England, Teacher David Holbrook and Composer Elizabeth Poston are preparing a new hymnal for use in schools (every British school starts the day with a hymn), and so far have found only 100 usable songs from the 10,000 or so contained in seven standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer...
This year's production starts Richard Basehart, Hal Holbrook, and Philip Bosco in the lead roles. Richard II is one of Shakespeare's earliest historical plays...
Young Hal Holbrook, despite a dime-store beard, conveys the old age of John of Gaunt in both body and voice, though there is more to be had from his farewell speech, as grand a paean to England as ever was penned. As staged here, Gaunt walks slowly off stage in apparent good health; no sooner is the last of his gown out of sight in the wings when Northumberland (solidly played by Will Geer) bounds back into view to report Gaunt's death. Now Shakespeare is partly to blame, for he wrote only eight lines between Gaunt's last...