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...Washington, the President's pen chant for popping into unexpected places left Hal Holbrook, Broadway's vet eran and highly skilled impersonator of Mark Twain, sounding more like Chico Marx. Holbrook was performing for Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson and a group of visiting college stu dents in the White House East Room when the President burst in, rushed up to the platform, grasped the actor's hand and said: "I always wanted to meet Mark Twain." Almost speech less, Holbrook forgot several subsequent lines, blew others, and later admitted: "I was really frightened." Among...
...paper, the group is an assembled dream. The permanent acting company consists of 26 actors working under 2½year contracts, and includes such names as Jason Robards Jr., David Wayne, Hal Holbrook, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Zohra Lampert and Salome Jens. About half the actors are young newcomers who are being trained as they go, both in productions and in daily classes that have been going on for more than a year. The group's guiding lights are Robert Whitehead, who was one of Broadway's most successful producers (Member of the Wedding), and Director Elia Kazan...
...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...