Word: holmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Boy. Chicago-born-as George Clinton Eccles-Terrell was raised by a grandmother (his parents had separated) who gave him his grandfather's name. Struck by theater magic at Chicago's Francis Parker School (recalls Fellow Student Celeste Holm: "He always seemed to be understudying John
Command Performance. In Centreville, Mich., Cabby Walter Holm answered a call to a home, was invited inside, and forced to sing for two hours while a man held a knife at his throat, was released unharmed...
...star nowadays who is willing to sign for a tour. "Actors aren't nomads anymore," says Actress Arlene Francis. "They're only interested in security, and they can get that by staying home and working 52 weeks a year on television." Says Celeste (Third Best Sport) Holm: "People used to tour as a whole family. Family life was preserved in that trunk you hear about. Families still reminisce about being together for Christmas in Dubuque and all that jazz. Today, actors won't give up family life at home...
...overworn ideas and stereotyped characters. There is the sour corporation president, the xenophobic grande dame, the iconoclastic philosophy professor, the ambitious junior executive, and the young wife who upsets everything by refusing to be a lickspittle. The structure is creaky, and the turns of the plot wholly predictable. Celeste Holm did her best as the young wife, but she was just wasting her time...
This show brings out the versatility of the five stars--Celeste Holm, James Daly, Valerie Bettis, Michael Tolan and Arnold Moss--who are called on to play from two to five different major roles each. All these performances are polished. Miss Holm (young and elderly Eve, Mrs. Lutestring, Zoo, and Lilith) seems a bit uneasy as young Eve clad only in a few leaves, but she is first-rate after that, especially in her denunciatory speech to Adam and Cain, and in Lilith's concluding monologue. Daly (young and elderly Adam, Archbishop, and An Ancient) is also uneasy at first...