Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judy Tyler-an almost telepathic quickness. Sponsors (currently: LIFE, Amoco and Hamm's Beer) like the show because it is economical ($10,000 a week) and usually bags a respectable rating. Actors like the show, despite a meager $250 stipend, because it requires no preparation, is fun to play, and gives them a welcome chance to ham it up. Vincent Price credits it with changing his career: he could get nothing but "heavy" roles until producers saw him clowning his way through successive performances on Pantomime Quiz...
...scholarship at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, she staggered the judges by offering to ripple off 16 Bach preludes and fugues. In her second year at Juilliard she learned the Goldberg Variations in five weeks, was later told by the president that it was impossible to play the Variations (unmodified) on a piano. "Luckily," says Rosalyn Tureck, "I hadn't known that." After graduation she joined Juilliard's faculty...
...Quare Fellow, a Manhattan-bound three-act play that won critical applause in London last year, Irish Puppeteer Behan performs a farcical jig on the trap in the Hanging and Flogging wing of a prison remarkably like Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. His "Quare Fellow," who never appears in the play, is one of two men waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill...
Birdlime in a Dell. It sounds like dismal stuff, but from the first lines of this play the Irish language contrasts with modern stage English as a cage of songbirds contrasts with a yardful of hens, and the reader is quickly caught in a Grand McGuignol of fatalist humor. Like Koestler, rumpled, mountainous Author Behan, 34, knows prison bars from the inside; he was sentenced in his teens to an English reformatory for dropping I.R.A. explosives into London mailboxes, has spent in all eight years in prison for assorted violence on behalf of Irish freedom. His dialogue flourishes with...
...earnest tribute: "A woman's charm and attraction are more effective than force of arms. Ilouhi . . . played the part of a Talleyrand among the Moi's." In Jungle Mission (the English edition of Mission Speciale en Foret Moi, published by Editions France-Empire} Rene Riesen sets out to describe the guerrilla war in Viet Nam (1946-54), in which carnivo rous insects play almost as important a role as the cunning Viet Minh. There are exciting interludes in which elephants are hunted by day and tiger, buffalo, roebuck, boar and deer shot by flashlight at night...