Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Joan Crawford in Flamingo Road...
...evening his "little girl," aged 19, casually breaks the news that she plans to marry a "terribly wonderful" young man. Tracy conjures up nightmarish notions of what the suitor may be like, browbeats his wife (Joan Bennett) for her unseemly calm. At their first meeting, he coldly appraises the young man (Don Taylor), fumbles with small talk, sighs resignedly as he sees the couple's eyes for each other. "Right then," he recalls, "I realized that my day was over...
...Hopkins, of Cambridge, and a student in the Buckingham School, won the Departmental Award in History, and award given on the basis of competitive exams. Honorable mention went to Lois Ann Dickson, of Portland, Me. and Portland High School, Lily Emmet, of New York City and Joan Brearley School, and Martha Roland, of Drexel Hills, Pa., and the Agnes Irwin School. Over 59 students took the history examinations...
...Joan's "inner life" offered more opportunity for soliloquy in her cell than for dramatic movement. The limply worded libretto, by Queens College Music Professor Joseph Machlis, was not only static but too often banal. And the music, well-made but often weak where it needed strength, was more effective at setting moods than delivering powerful operatic punches...
Those faults were serious enough to keep any opera from scoring a resounding success. Most first-nighters agreed that Joan rated as a good first...