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...years in Brooklyn, moved to Manhattan. The swamps and old fishing villages in the further reaches have given way to modern subdivisions that most young couples rising in the world regard as mere way stations on the road to suburbia. "Long Island, that's the thing," said Mrs. Myra Gershowitz, 24, as she pushed a baby carriage around Sheepshead Bay. "Everybody's moving to the island. You think you're missing something if you don't move out there...
Died. Dame Myra Hess, 75, British concert pianist, who passed unnoticed when she made her debut amid the flamboyant virtuosos of the early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London...
...with lines like "You just told me you killed a man and it's all right. I hardly know you, yet I know it's all right" or "It isn't as if I cold give you a good reason, Emile. This is emotional." But one might wish that Myra Nassau acted more like Mary Martin and less like Martha Raye, that Dean Stolber (De Becque) were not made up to look like an escaped convict, and that both of them would stop registering true love as if it were midway between terror and disgust...
THAT WAS YVETTE by Bettina Knapp and Myra Chipman. 380 pages. Holt, Rinehart and Winston...
...very mad, very English, and very nearly preposterous. But for viewers eager to empty their minds and concentrate on such creepy business, Writer-Director Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaved Room) works an aura of disaster into every nook and passageway of a turreted old mansion. As the demented psychic, Myra, Kim Stanley manages so many subtle shifts of mood that she seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant, and a deadly menace. The kidnap scene is a cinematic whirlwind, with the camera cutting and lashing across the landscape to build to a moment of crisis when the victim (Judith Donner) locks herself...