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...deeply Christian man who gave at least 30% of his vast wealth to the Baptist church; yet he felt no compunction whatever about using his Senate position to fight for tax laws that would enhance his own riches. He could be gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman was dying, Kerr sat for hours at the bedside, holding his hand in deep grief. But Kerr could also be brutal: in a Senate committee meeting, he once goaded Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas into a fury, then challenged Douglas to a fist fight-even though Douglas has a crippled...
...Angeles' theaters contain more than revivals of New York shows, however. Various university organizations-most notably John Houseman's Theater Group at U.C.L.A.-present first-rate productions of dramatic classics. Elsewhere in the city, productions of As You Like It and Macbeth were on the boards last week. Most Los Angeles theaters are the small-capacity off-Broadway type (locally called "off Vine") that run smoothly on three-quarters of a shoestring and will try almost anything but a new play. Few make money, but some coin it. Two small L.A. theaters recently reported box-office receipts...
...paper, All Fall Down has plenty going for it: an all-star cast, an able producer (John Houseman), a talented young director (John Frankenheimer), a screenplay adapted by a famous playwright (William Inge) from a notable novel by James Leo Herlihy. On acetate, these virtues seem reversed. The story is incidental and interminable, the scene-writing lacks Ingenuity, the characters are cliche, the direction is untidy, the actors are Actors' Studious-Beatty in particular employs a scabious charm that fails to explain his part but might be said to communicate Berry-berry...
Shrewd or Safe. Much praised for hazarding a high reputation in the theater by committing himself to a university group, Houseman says: "My whole life in show business has been a risk. There are two approaches. Either you play it very shrewd and sit back safely, or you do what amuses you." Born in Bucharest of a French father and a British mother, Houseman was educated in France and England, and worked as a London grain broker before moving to New York and his first area of amusement: Broadway...
With Orson Welles, Houseman formed the Mercury Theater group in 1937, revitalized Broadway with productions like Julius Caesar (in modern dress), and, later, Native Son. They sent the U.S. into panic in 1938 with the celebrated CBS radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds -in which Martians were reported to be landing in Grovers Mill...