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Pirandello's Emperor Henry IV, now at the Schubert Theater with Rex Harrison in the starring role, is perhaps not as deep as it would like to be. Neither Harrison's intense acting nor the majestic stage set can lift the dialogue from the realm of the obvious (or the too ambiguous, which sometimes comes to the same thing). The play works best when it attempts to be comic; when the hero lets loose with one of his philosophical outbursts, the audience tends to shuffle its feet. But there is little time to get bored with such a short production...
Died. James Henle, 81, longtime president of Vanguard Press (1928-52) and first publisher of some of his generation's best-known authors, including Saul Bellow (Dangling Man, The Victim), James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan trilogy), Dr. Seuss and Mystery Writer Rex Stout; of Parkinson's disease; in Arlington...
...world's three "great newspapers" (TIME, Aug. 28). Washington Post Editorial Writer Stephen Rosenfeld, an ex-Eagle staffer, thinks that Bagdikian was "charmed as an outsider to discover that there exists in the Berkshires a paper that appeals to the New York Times reader." Eagle Managing Editor Kingsley ("Rex") Fall says: "We're proud of what we do, and we hope we're getting better, but I prefer to treat the Bagdikian reference as some sort of mild joke." Joke or not, the commendation reminded other small-city papers of what they might become...
Pygmallon. The best filming of any Shaw play. Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard directed this beautifully acted version of Shaw's comedy of speech and manners. Leslie Howard is an elegant Henry Higgins--we are so tempered to think of Rex Harrison in the role that it is amazing how quickly Howard's image shuffles Harrison out of our heads. Wendy Hiller is a vital and beautiful Eliza Dolittle, and Wilfrid Lawson is joyously seedy as her father. Arthur Honegger composed the musical score, so even if you miss Lerner and Loew, there are compensations...
What little suspense there was in the workmanlike rout came in the opening relay. The Crimson held a two-body-length lead into the final leg, where sophomore Mike Cook, returning after a year's absence, held off a charge by the Midshipmen's top swimmer, Rex Hand for an exciting...