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...with the national release of the film version of Cold Blood, adapted his short story Among the Paths to Eden into a bizarre yet oddly touching glimpse into the life of the lonely. Filmed entirely in a New York City cemetery, the play starred Maureen Stapleton as an old maid who spends an afternoon roaming the burial grounds on the theory that, acre for acre, it is a better place than most to meet a widowed man-and a possible suitor. When she approaches one slightly retiring fellow, played by Martin Balsam, the dialogue casts its mood so well that...
...black as she is blonde. Everyone is poleaxed by the news: Hepburn puts on that blank stare one remembers from Bringing Up Baby. Tracy's seamed old face knits together, and his chin goes up like that of an Indian chief reading threatening smoke signals. The Negro maid upbraids Poitier as a "smooth-talking, smart-ass nigger" taking advantage of her little girl. Only the family friend, lovable Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), is unfazed, as a good Catholic priest should...
...taxi driver knows the latest back stage gossip from the opera house. The maid hums Schubert lieder while brewing coffee. The shopkeeper can debate the baton technique of leading conductors. Throughout Austria, everybody seems to be caught up in music, whether as a cultural pursuit, political issue, spectator sport, historical tradition or simple daily pleasure. Other countries may name their streets after composers, but Austria must be the only place where a crack train is called the Mozart Express, and where the national airline has planes called Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner. Even affairs of state become insignificant next...
Toys in the Attic is one of Lillian Hellman's workmanlike psychological geographies. In the New Orleans of another generation she sets two spinster sisters. Carrie Berniers, for reasons unknown, is in love with her younger brother Julian. She has, it is remarked, talked like an old maid since the age of 12. Anna, the elder sister, has taken her mother's place caring for the two younger children. Her reasons are not known...
...second half of the concert was in a decidedly lighter vein. Princeton sang songs im Volkston from the U.S., Russia and a little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...