Word: humes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's dark energy; they never adequately explained how a respectable British stockbroker named Charles Strickland (modeled on famed Painter Paul Gauguin) could abandon wife and family for a new career as an artist-or why, after he seduced Blanche Stroeve (Jessica Tandy), wife of his best friend (Hume Cronyn), Blanche later turned to suicide. But the play's bright scenes, brilliantly colored, were as bold and carefully constructed as the Gauguin masterpieces they were meant to match. Strickland in the South Seas was an eloquent portrait of the developing artist and the degenerating man. The combination...
...Moon and Sixpence (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Sir Laurence Olivier makes Ms American TV debut in Somerset Maugham's modern classic. With a superb supporting cast, including Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Cyril Cusak. Color...
...headquarters in Zurich, where an auburn-haired beauty-shop owner named Trudi Sommer, 29. was only too happy to have him share her apartment. She thought he was a Canadian test pilot named Johnny Bird. Then, one night last January, for reasons he was never quite able to explain, Hume wandered off to a church, where he drank up all the communion wine. Next morning, armed with a pistol, he turned up at a small branch of Zurich's Gewerbebank to help himself to "a spot of cash...
When a teller balked. Hume shot and critically wounded him. Scooping up a meager $45, he ran out into the street just as the assistant teller rang the alarm. He killed a taxi driver who tried to stop him, was finally brought down by a 24-year-old pastry cook after his pistol jammed...
...Tell That Bum." In court last week, Hume put on the performance of his life. He yawned, hummed, shouted abuse, and tossed his black curls as witness after witness told what had happened that fatal morning. When the president of the court, mild-mannered Dr. Hans Gut, began with the formality of asking the prisoner his name, Hume snarled at the interpreter: "Tell that bum that he should know...