Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Starring Jane Wyman...
...also announced that the search for Helen of Troy has ended with the selection of Connaught O'Connell '52. Others in the cast include: Theodore L. Gershuny '54, Hector; Joanna Brown '52, Andromache; Charles Humpstone '53, Paris; David Bowen '51, Ulysses; Christopher C. Beels '53, Priam; June Garfield, Cassandra; Jane Johnson '52, Hecuba; and Michael Mabry '53, Ajax...
...week's end, heavily guarded, Harry Truman flew west. He landed at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., gave Miss Mary Jane Truman a brotherly peck on the cheek. His Secret Service men flanked him on his 25-mile ride to St. Louis with their hands near their revolvers...
...Gerald Kelly, the 71-year-old president of London's Royal Academy, takes a modest view of the portraits that have brought him fame. Besides paintings of the King & Queen, he has done scores of his wife Jane, eleven of his good friend Somerset Maugham. They are all fine likenesses, and that is their one strength. "I am," he says mildly, "a sort of reliable family solicitor; I turn out a good sound job of work...
...taken Tennessee William's comedy and faithfully translated it into celluloid. Marion Brando's screamingly funny performances on Broadway is here duplicated by the antics of Kirk Douglas; and Jane Wyman, as William's limping heroine, gets her own share of laughs. Gertrude Lawrence's characterization of a fading southern belle however, while funny, cannot come up to the standard set by Douglas. "The Admiral was a Lady," with this at Boston's Metropolitan Theatre is nearly as good...