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...young schoolboy son is ragged by bullies, his daughter is afraid of boys, and he himself, being a harness salesman in the decade of the tin lizzie, has lost his job. Pat Hingle gave the Broadway role a ring of rowdiness soured by doubt. Robert (The Music Man) Preston performs rousingly in the considerably enlarged film part. But the ring of his lines is not doubt -it is seventy-six trombones...
Playwright Inge's intention, put over-simply, was to show that each soul has its dark places, and that people can, with love, help each other past these stair tops. Actor Preston just does not behave like a man afraid of the dark. He roars about, spending energy as if he could plow a field without a horse. The viewer knows that Preston will get another job, and can only grin when the frustrated fellow complains that his wife (Dorothy McGuire) treats him "like change from a nickel" and thunders out of the house vowing that...
...AMERICANA HOTEL will be built by Loew's Theaters Inc., on site of demolished theater, as Loew's first major diversification effort since Hotelmen Laurence and Preston Tisch...
...Show of the Month (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). A remake of Actress-Author Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play, Years Ago, tells about a stage-struck teen-ager who fights her parents for a crack at Broadway. Sandra (Gypsy) Church stars as the young Ruth, Robert (Music Man) Preston as her father...
...months after his second release from Preston, 18-year-old Caryl Chessman landed in the county jail on another auto-theft charge. With two stays in Preston already on his record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...