Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seesaw balances a downhearted Omaha lawyer, looking for a divorce, with a Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden, in a funny, moving glimpse of offbeat New York life; with Dana Andrews and Anne Bancroft...
...spelled out the beginning of a plot- The Plot to Kill Stalin -Playhouse 90's scheduled return this week to the shrinking world of live TV drama (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). However the show might turn out, famed Producer Fred Coe (Peter Pan, Two for the Seesaw) had labored hard to make it authentic. On his orders, Writer David Karp and a staff of researchers went to work like aspiring Ph.D.s...
Today Wall Street is looking to a brighter future. Experts expect that trading will be slow for the rest of the year, that stocks will seesaw in a narrow range. The big test of whether the market has seen its low will come in the next six weeks, when companies release their first-quarter earnings. Railroads, copper and other metals, already hard hit in 1957, are not likely to improve. Nevertheless, Wall Street feels that the basis is being laid for a rise in late 1958 and 1959. One clue is the widening spread between stock dividends and bond yields...
Beyond bringing a rather promising playwright to Broadway, Two for the Seesaw brings a remarkably appealing actress. TV's Anne Bancroft has an urgently personal quality and unmistakable comic gifts. Allotted a distinctive lingo and some catchy lines, she wonderfully brightens her early scenes with a blend of Bohemian bluntness and Bronx cheer. But she can manage emotion too, and inner perception, and suffering she wants to conceal. In a far weaker part-being virtually a straight man in comedy scenes, and a rather literary talker in serious ones-Actor Fonda can only, very often, be adroitly dull...
Like Gittel Mosca, the girl she plays in Two for the Seesaw, Actress Anne Bancroft speaks pure Bronxese with expansive gestures to match. Like Gittel, she likes bulky sweaters, long black stockings and flat shoes. With this background, she needed just one reading to win the part from Producer Fred Coe. Says Director Arthur Penn: "She didn't even read for me-I was sold on sight. She is Gittel...