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Olive Dunbar made a wonderfully warm and pathetic Mrs. Loman. She was fine all the way through until her closing monologue in the Requiem, which proved a bit too much for her. Robert Evans '59 and Robert Blackburn were a fine pair of errant sons; and John Peters '52 made a splendidly materialistic Uncle...
...Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from the church's inner walls and black crape muffling the pews, black drapery with a white cross behind the altar, additional functionaries in cocked hats and a requiem Mass with 60 priests, acolytes and singers...
...program for this week will be high-lighted by a performance of Brahms' Requiem on Saturday, July...
...rather flat role of Happy, Robert Blackwell seems ill-at-ease at moments and rarely does his characterization catch fire. The role of Charley, the nextdoor neighbor, is carried by John Coe with a sure touch and necessary comic relief. However, he rushes through the beautiful and poignant requiem quite wastefully and thus loses some of the cathartic effect of the play...
...society is a man-eat-man thing on every possible level," says Writer Rod Serling, 33, and his tough, uncompromising television plays (Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian) reflect this belief. So does his professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled...