Word: larking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in striking closeup, breathed her special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with...
...Lark was seen by some 26 million viewers, roughly 125 times the number who saw Actress Harris' 208 Broadway performances, and probably many more than have seen all the Joans (including Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell, Ingrid Bergman. Uta Hagen. Siobhan McKenna) of the American stage combined...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Lark, with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc (color...
...hears a piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style pop tunes and a seven-minute piece of medieval polyphony for The Lark. His musical manner is modern, but it lacks the uncompromising dissonance, the agonized searching that characterizes so much contemporary music. It has been said that, like the proverbial blonde, his music is extremely well put together and has all the obvious points of attraction, but no heart. Bernstein has been dismissed...
...Harrison again. This time Harrison was accompanied by Confidential's Managing Editor A. P. Govoni and a blonde nightclub singer, Geene Courtney, 30, onetime Miss Cheesecake of New York. The party carried guns for hunting, but as a Confidential spokesman put it, " It was a sort of a lark in the mountains; you know what I mean...