Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This dramatization of John Galsworthy's sequence novel of a large, nouveau-riche English family begins in 1879, and carries them through 50 years - and 26 weekly installments - of scandal, true love, success and misunderstanding. The series, with Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter, became a "national obsession" in Britain, where it first played...
...played by Lana Morris. Margaret Tyzack, as Jolyon's cousin Winifred, marries a ne'er dowell. And then there's Soames, Winifred's brother, who looks like a cross between Abraham Lincoln and a character from Dark Shadows. Soames, done to a turn by Eric Porter, is a dour sort, with never a thought of sex in his legal mind. Ah, but tune in the next week, when Soames meets Irene, portrayed by Nyree Dawn Porter...
...pairs exist to test the sweep and sinew of an actor's craft: Marlowe's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Shylock, Marlowe's Edward II and Shakespeare's Richard II. The last actor to play the two Jews on successive nights was Eric Porter at Stratford on Avon in 1965. Now, for the first time since 1903, the two kings are being doubled in repertory by an English actor named Ian McKellen, who has thus made himself the undoubted sensation of this year's ever-popular Edinburgh Festival...
...Porter Square: about a fifteen minute walk north on Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square, Porter Square is the major business district for North Cambridge. The MBTA plans to extend its rapid transit to Porter Square (Harvard Square is now the end of the line) but lack of funds has held up the extension...
...Justice seems to be recuperating. According to friends, he will resume practicing law early this fall with an impressive list of corporate clients in Boston and New York. None of the corporations said to be involved have ever been represented by Fortas' old law firm, Arnold & Porter, which decided against taking him back after the Supreme Court affair-though his wife Carolyn is still a partner. "He lined up some big, lucrative retainers," reports a friend, "and suddenly his whole emotional outlook had changed. He knew he didn't have to give...