Word: straights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years of yearning to shoot straight in a horse opera, Singer-Actor Sammy Davis Jr. got his wish, was exuberant after filming an all-Negro oater for CBS-TV's Zane Grey Theater. Wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Sammy had been pessimistic about the prospects of ever persuading a producer to dramatize any epic pitting dark skins against red skins: "They'll never do it! But if they do, it'll be the first time they let the Indians win!" In the current saga, Davis plays a corporal in a cavalry unit assigned...
...superb technique: the lines he throws away, the jokes he holds his nose at, the changes of pace, the changes of face, the alarming sounds in his throat. If Flanders' way is to be sinuous, mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly mad as Don Quixote. Their combined way has given Broadway its gayest evening since La Plume de Ma Tante...
More recitation than straight drama, Dear Liar (first presented last spring in a U.S. tour by Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne-TIME, April 27*) provides Actress Bergner with the kind of virtuoso acting opportunities she needs. With top-notch support from German Actor Otto Hasse as Shaw, Bergner limns the famous affair-by-letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone...
...World Council of Churches marched straight into a longstanding moral controversy last week, appeared to come close to outright endorsement of artificial birth control...
With Nobody Watching. As partners, the stars of the Huntley-Brinkley Report are complementary rather than competitive-an unusual circumstance in the jealously competitive TV club. Huntley, 47, is the straight man, tall (6 ft. 1 in.), saturninely handsome, serious, inclined to take a panoramic view of the news, more inclined to pundit. This comes out most in his own Sunday show, Time: Present -Chet Huntley Reporting, in which he explores predominantly heavy subjects: integration, world trade, public education. A graduate of Western broadcasting (Seattle, Los Angeles), he was brought East by NBC in 1956 to do the Sunday show...