Word: magical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well. But where humor and humanity cooperate. Stuart Vaughan's staging is dynamic, and the two parts of Henry IV play a rewarding part in a largely unrewarding theatrical season...
Died. Dr. Felix Kersten, 61, Gestapo Boss Heinrich Himmler's personal physician ( "my magic Buddha"), who used his influence over his patient to save 3,000,000 Dutchmen from deportation to Polish Galicia and the Ukraine and 60,000 Jews from death in the gas chamber, moved to Sweden in 1943 and became a Swedish citizen ten years later; of a heart attack; in Hamm, Germany. Kersten was a movingly human figure in the upper echelon of Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives...
...Magician (Swedish). Bergman in another mood: the magic of the 19th century Mesmer in the story and of the writer-director on the other side of the camera combine to make a film that is just about as hypnotic as it was meant...
Fortnight ago in Indiana, Jack Kennedy had said that "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night." In West Virginia he promised a new deal for the state, including federal loans and a "fair share" of defense contracts. To make use of the old F.D.R. magic, he sent Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on tour to persuade West Virginians that Jack Kennedy is an authentic New Dealer at heart. But even with F.D.R. Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits. Even when Kennedy and Humphrey were saying much...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...