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...rest of the cast is a ship of ghouls: a warlock, a 175-year-old witch (played by a nubile blonde), lab-made monsters whose ev ery part is a transplant, a ghost and an agent of the devil. One of the few nearnormal human beings is the matriarch of "Collinwood," the haunted manor that is the scene of the action. That role is filled by the show's top-billed star, former Film Actress Joan Bennett, 58, who says frankly: "You reach a certain age in Hollywood when there's a shortage of glamour roles...
...after next week. In More Stately Mansions, Bergman will play an odious matriarch battling her daughter-in-law for her son. Equally important is the chance to perform a "good play" by "America's greatest playwright, one whose work the people ought to be seeing." Despite her personal tranquillity, Bergman is worried about "a world where there can be no peace, where people are continuously hurting each other...
...that the directors should eliminate all Nazi undertones in their mountings of the music dramas. Another, not unrelated, was that British-born Winifred Wagner, widow of the composer's son Siegfried and mother of Wolfgang and Wieland, should abdicate her long-held role as iron-fisted matriarch of Bayreuth's every artistic and managerial move. Winifred had been a high-ranking Nazi, a personal friend and financial supporter of Hitler, and had allowed Wolfgang to be photographed as a child sitting in the Fiihrer...
...There was nothing to warn him of the gruesome shape of things to come but a swipe on the scalp by a sword-swinging Japanese madman at the end of a leisurely grand tour. Alicky was Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt, favorite granddaughter of Queen Victoria-the matchmaking old matriarch of half the reigning families of Europe...
Wednesday, October 5 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Shelley Winters is a guest villainess as the matriarch of a gaggle of gunmen in "The Greatest Mother of Them All." Throw her in jail, and before anyone can say "Gleeps!" she takes over the pen-warden and all. Fear not. The dynamic duo bat down this Mommaniac...