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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...
...sense Joan goes through the entire play with "her eyes skyward." This is a far different approach from the one which Jean Anouilh and Lillian Hellman took in The Lark--a comparison of the two plays seems both inevitable and intriguing--and dramatically it is a much more difficult approach. Shaw has purposely deprived himself of the spontaneous, natural, earthy Joan who made such an attractive heroine for Anouilh. Instead he has made her a saint--and everyone knows that there is nothing duller than a saint's life...
Henry V, the main Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French...