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...episode, Blackmer went on to gain fame as a '20s and '30s matinee idol. But his best performances came after his youth began to fade: he won a Tony in 1950 for his portrayal of Doc, the alcoholic husband, in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, and most recently was the satanic warlock in the film Rosemary's Baby...
From the slovenly housewife and third-rate chiropractor in his first Broadway hit, Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), to the commonplace women of the Pulitzer prizewinning Picnic (1953), to the wistful nightclub singer and the cowboy of Bus Stop (1955), to the ordinary family life in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Inge drew on his own Kansas boyhood for "some very sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood...
...with Broadway's yearning to remember things past. Nonetheless, the success of Follies and Nanette has quickened the pulse of every Broadway grave robber who has read the grosses and misinterpreted them. Now on their way are musicals based on such memory-soaked epics as Come Back, Little Sheba, National Velvet, The Great Gatsby and Some Like It Hot?plus revivals of New Faces of 1952 and the 1944 hit On the Town...
...treasures back to Rome. Only now is one of the items on its way back to Addis Ababa, the magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...
Tuesday, December 31 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth won an Oscar for her performance in Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) opposite Burt Lancaster, Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...