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...star in an adaptation of François Billetdoux's Tchin-Tchin (the word equals hello or goodbye, like ciao in Italian), a tale about lovers who meet as a result of a love affair between his wife and her husband (Oct. 18) A limited-run production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal opens on Broadway Jan. 21, starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud, who will also direct. Sidney Kingsley's first play in eight years is called Night Life (Oct. 23). It takes place in a key club, has 28 people onstage throughout...
Ireland, said Sheridan, is the land of happy wars and sad love songs. So we are informed, at any rate, by one of the singers on a Columbia album called "A SPONTANEOUS RECORDING!" The spontaneous performance is given by the Clancy Brothers (Tom, Pat, and Liam), Tommy Makem, Pete Seeger (on banjo), Bruce Langhorne (on guitar), and what is described as "a 200-voice singing audience." The audience is not omnipresent, and all of the songs (like all Irish songs, I'm convinced) have the gift o' th' gab. The performers, too, are ebullient, effervescent, and effusive, a welcome change...
...MORRISON Sheridan...
Harvard will be at full strength. The only questionmarks in personnel are Dave Nyhan and Mike Sheridan, who were injured Saturday. Otherwise, the whole crew will be ready...
...Died. Sheridan Downey, 77, two-term (1939-50) Democratic Senator from California, a wealthy lawyer who contracted an uncontrollable social itch in Depression days and sought to alleviate it with humanitarian but haphazard plans for economic reform; after a long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...