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Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Shrike is a compounded horror story. It is frightening as a possessive wife's conquest of a man who wishes desperately to escape her, and as a failure of inadequate and dangerous psychiatric techniques which become the woman's weapon...
...Shrike is also exciting theatre. In the tense antiseptic air of a hospital wardroom, the horror creeps in as the man slowly realizes that it is impossible to prove his sanity. By subtly exaggerating all his slight abnormalities, the woman convinces the doctors that he is mentally unsound. And with their limited understanding, these psychiatrists add her reports to the man's attempted suicide to emerge with a neat and totally inaccurate diagnosis. From that point, they call anything he says the ravings of an insane individual...
...Joseph Kramm, for his play The Shrike. <1 Harvard Professor Oscar Handlin, for The Uprooted, a history of immigrants...