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...Neill and George Bernard Shaw to undiscovered playwrights, its performers from an aging generation whose formative experiences were in tent shows, travelling troupes, and vaudeville theaters to an energetic new generation that would dominate American entertainment for years to come, a crew that included Orson Welles and John Houseman, Will Geer and John Huston, E.G. Marshall and Joseph Cotton...
...pressures. The political content of the Theatre Project drew the wrath of Congressional critics and ultimately contributed, at least in part, to the withdrawal of Congressional funding in 1939. Nor were pressures only external: despite the "uncensored" mandate, productions thought too controversial were occasionally postponed. By 1938, Welles and Houseman had left the Project in just such a dispute...
...Paper Chase (Sept. 9, CBS, 8 p.m.). All summer CBS has been touting The Paper Chase as its classiest new program. One can see why. Well acted and produced, this series has a highbrow setting (a law school), a prestigious star (John Houseman) and harpsichord music on the soundtrack. As if all this were not proof enough of culture, the first episode contains not one but two 25? words: "contradistinction" and "propitious." PBS would kill to have a show like this...
Nonetheless, The Paper Chase is unlikely to tax the minds of viewers. Based on a negligible 1973 movie (which won Houseman an Oscar as best supporting actor), the series is a high-minded exercise in old-school TV sentimentality-a sort of Teacher Knows Best. Houseman plays a legendary professor whose stony exterior belies a heart as big as a lecture hall. He is surrounded by a bevy of students (one farm boy, one city slicker, one feisty woman) who try to curry his favor and share his wisdom. Since the first episode recounts virtually the entire plot...
...phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close to only one person: Jack Matlick, 48, the Brachs' chauffeur and houseman for 18 years...