Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEATHER BOYS. Director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) revs up Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell and Dudley Sutton for this exuberant British drama about a teen-age harridan whose husband prefers his homosexual motorcycling mate to home and hearth...
...directing the play, Morris Carnovsky has played up the broad comedy in Zweig's dialogue. Many gestures underline the characters' faults; for instance, "the dove" Colomba, a hypocritically pious and hypocritically faithful wife affectionately twirls her husband's hair into horns while avowing her undying love. Even the blocking is significant. In an opening scene, Mosca lies at his master's feet while they both drink a toast to Volpone; in the final scene, "the fox" grovels before Mosca...
That's too harsh a team for the Dunster production; but Licht has allowed many members of his large cast to turn their characters into caricatures. Mr. Pugh, the hen-pecked husband endlessly dreaming of poisoning his wife; Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, who won't let boarders into her boarding house because they might breathe on the chairs -- exaggerated performances kept these and other figures forever outside the realm of credibility. Even an accomplished actress like Ellery Akers shrieked, slouched, and grimaced her way through the evening...
...greeting cards from one group in a New Jersey town, and daily bags of mail from all over the U.S., addressed simply: "G.I. Joe, Viet Nam." A high school in New York State is raising money to send a G.I. wife to a Christmas reunion with her husband in Hong Kong or Manila. An offer of 500 cases of beer from a Cincinnati labor union was regretfully declined by the Defense Department. Gratefully accepted was a continuing flood tide of blood donations from thousands of students at more than 60 campuses from Appalachia to Austria...
...Joan of Arc in The Lark). And now, as always, she beats the odds in her own special way, winning even when she loses-in The Lark she lost her life but won immortality; in Skyscraper she loses her brownstone but walks off with a large bankroll, a rich husband and the show...