Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nine years away from the West End stage, frolicsome Actress Sarah Churchill buckled down for her mantelshelf solo as the protagonist in a forthcoming production of Sir James Barrie's Peter Pan. At 44, comely Sarah will be one of the oldest of 32 London Peters (among them: Elsa Lanchester, Edna Best) to flit across the Darling's nursery, nonetheless seemed ready to navigate her nearly 600 yds. of flying weekly in the sentimental old wheeze. Sure to be on hand for the opening: her parents. Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, who booked eight seats...
...reverend mother cannot even ask the mother general in Paris for special permission; the reverend mother has forgotten her French. And unless someone can get the nuns out of the cloister, the monosyllabic police lieutenant is prepared to see the suspect strapped into the electric chair. Enter Private Detective Peter Gunn...
...reason, suggests a pressagent, is that Peter Gunn is "a little bit much." The program so exaggerates traditional private-eye brouhahas that it can be taken for parody. And it is done so deadpan that it has rigor mortis of the upper...
Actually, the show's special appeal is neither sex nor standard whodunit suspense. The audience is rarely kept guessing about who scragged the rich widow or shot the human fly. All Peter Gunn's have to do is wince while their man absorbs his beatings. Usually they know did what to whom, and they can be that Pete will survive with his features unscrambled. While the mayhem builds up though, the show offers a fine sound track. Jazzman Henry Mancini, who boasts some 50 movie credits, composes scores for each show, leads leman band through a whining, insinuating...
Romanoff and Juliet. Actor Peter Ustinov does a fine job with Playwright Ustinov's international farce. In CHICAGO...