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William Cain studied and worked with Walter Kerr and Alan Schneider. He left the title role of the Off-Broadway play, Jericho Jim Orson was the leading soubrette with the American Savoyards, where she performed the complete repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan in New York and on tour. Robert Van Hooten joined Trinity after playing the Father in the Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The screen version of Jean Kerr's comedy Mary, Mary. Color...
...just missed the first first night of his 40 since entering show business in 1954. The show was Pickwick, and it was a critical bust (see THEATER). Smarting from the reviews, which had been phoned to him in Tokyo,* the splenetic producer tore into Herald Tribune Critic Walter Kerr with an intemperance to match Radio Hanoi. Kerr (who is a Roman Catholic), said Merrick, "panned Pickwick because the Pope was saying Mass at Yankee Stadium that night, and Walter was simply sore that he had to be at the opening instead. Someone ought to send Kerr to Viet...
Marriage on the Rocks is the most recent effort to capture for posterity the fanny-pinching sophistication of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. In a coy casting switch, Sinatra plays a bored, busy advertising brain who has spent 19 years with his own wife (Deborah Kerr). "What a swinger he was in the old days," moons Deborah. Now he bedevils his teen-age daughter (played by Sinatra's own daughter Nancy) and deplores his rakish company vice president (Martin), an aging torn whose bachelor flat is strewn with molted bikinis...
Rocks' least comfortable performer is Actress Kerr, whose fans may well wonder what a nice girl like Deborah is doing in a play like this. Wasted on farce, she sidles from gag to gag with the faintly startled air of a very proper matron who somehow finds herself pouring tea at a disreputable party...