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...effort of the season (to be aired April 21), Dean gunned his Dual Ghia into the parking lot of NBC studios in Burbank at noon. He spent the first hour or so goofing around with his musical director. At 1 p.m., the dancers and Guest Stars Liberace, Comedienne Dorothy Loudon and Tanya the Elephant were brought together for the first time. It was not exactly a dry run with Dean. For one thing, Dean didn't bother to take part; for another, he was breaking out the dressing-room bottle and splashing himself a tall Scotch and water. Then...
John Whiting's The Devils skillfully transforms Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudon, a narrative chocked with explication, into an excellent drama. However, Michael Cacoyannis, the director, fails to realize that The Devils, although camouflaged as an historical play, stands firmly in the abstract and psychological tradition of modern drama...
Plays based on historical events will often lapse into Romanticism or scuffle along as mere recounting, but Whiting successfully molded his material for the theatre. He deftly compresses the time span between the arrival of Father Urbain Grandier (Jason Robards, Jr.) in Loudon and his cremation at the stake for sorcery. In addition, he juxtaposes crucial scenes with each other. While Grandier refuses to confess under torture, his false accuser, Prioress Jeanne (Anne Bancroft) soliloquizes on her sins at the other side of the stage...
...year history to become one of the seven managing directors who run the firm; in fact, he is the first of any nationality other than British or Dutch. He will fill a vacancy to be created by the retirement on July 1 of Senior Managing Director John H. Loudon (TIME cover, May 9, 1960). The top job, however, will remain in traditional hands: succeeding Loudon, 59, will be another Dutch oilman, Managing Director Luitzen Brouwer, 54. Spaght will in herit one of Loudon's titles: chairman of U.S. Shell. To take over the American firm as Spaght...
...sales to the Common Market) that last week the question of who owns the gas caused a formal debate in the Dutch Parliament, and was the subject of hot discussion in the German Bundestag. "It is like cutting up a plum pudding," explains Royal Dutch Petroleum President John H. Loudon. "Everyone wants the piece with the sixpence...