Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gracious, lively and charming, said the reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good...
...this outing, Bette reports in a severe uniform, her brows beetled, her mouth a crumpled rose. Her celebrated ocular choreography is directed mostly toward Joey (craftily played by Movie Newcomer William Dix), an incorrigible ten-year-old who has been sent away for therapy after drowning his little sister in the bath. Though Joey claims he didn't do it, he is the kind of brat whose idea of fun is to practice tying hangman's knots. The lad returns home, alas, with one of his psychoses analyzed as "an inborn antipathy toward middle-aged females." Soon poor...
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, by Joe Orton. The English theater is going through a sick-comedy phase. The Killing of Sister George, a smash hit now playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...
...which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...
...Negro boys as young as 15, have suffered the expected difficulties: threats, a beating, a harrowing 100-m.p.h. chase on the highway. But often the white community can be helpful. In Lowndes County, where Tom Coleman was acquitted of the murder of the Rev. Jonathan Daniels, Coleman's sister, county superintendent of schools, cheerfully briefs the Courier on school affairs...