Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also have big names to offer. On NBC, Bill Cosby will play a schoolteacher and Debbie Reynolds a sportswriter's wife. ABC will go with a musical variety series called Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters Hour, strange as it seems, the sneak-preview of that show received high ratings last spring...
Still, the new schedule offers some hope. No longer must the viewer face a season rolling without highlight or change. Little by little, because the specials now show up nearly every night, the schedule is being broken up and poked full of holes. For the audience this means at least more choice-and a chance for some substantive fare...
...titles which separate one production from the next are as arbitrary as the covers which divide Pierre from Moby Dick. Mayer is always visible beyond the veil of his work. He is the farthest cry from the school of directors who, bowing before script and cast, let a show take its own course. No matter how good the acting, or how arresting the costumes or set, Mayer's plays remain his private possessions. NO one steals the show from...
...Agassiz last night is the latest report on Mayer's development. By his standards it is a modest production. The cast is smaller than the cast for his adaptation of Jesus which played earlier in the summer; Peter Ivers's music is much less conspicuous than in the previous show--though the music seems to be one of the niceties which was sacrificed in the desperate effort to get the show open on time. But their reduction in scale and the last-minute pruning serve only to concentrate our attention on the twin concerns which have been announcing themselves...
...knows the perfection of his control of the theater from light board to script girl; his exultation in his own unchallenged command of the mannerisms of theater people. His energy, now revealed as anger, as self-pity, as melodrama, never flags: any needle in any vein to keep the show alive. He is the supreme impresario, diverting his own eyes and the world's from himself to his creations. If he could put King Kong on stage he would. As director he has no respect for the conventional limits of stage and theater. All the world is a prop...