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Stanley F. Teele, Coop president, told the annual membership meeting that Arnold Swenson, a 24-year director of the Columbia University bookstore, has been named director of the Coop's book department. In an interview last night, Swenson pledged to take action by next fall to end the recurring book shortages...
There is Max von Sydow, the moody, beautiful Swede who made his U.S. debut last winter as Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Still speaking as though he had just finished the Sermon on the Mount, he plays Scott Swenson, a barnstorming crop duster who crashes his plane in northern Mexico and is held by the police for demolishing a water tower. To raise money, he tells the police captain of an old enemy he has seen a moment ago driving through town with a blonde; this fellow just happens to have a price...
Baker Street puts Holmes in bogusly dangerous plights as he foils Professor Moriarty's plot to steal the Queen's Jubilee jewels, but it is never spoofy enough to raise a howl or scary enough to raise a hackle. The real danger is an American actress (Inga Swenson), who spurs Holmes's love disinterest. Actress Swenson is so cool that icicles wouldn't melt in her mouth, though words do-it is difficult to know whether she is reading her lines or learning them. Martin Gabel is sepulchrally menacing as Moriarty, but he has a walk...
...Western prairie country some time in the early '30s, the action hinges on the efforts of a plain girl's father and brothers to find her a husband before she reaches the no-takers age. Lizzie (Inga Swenson) knows as much as any man, but she scorns what every woman is supposed to know-how to flutter, flatter, bewilder and bewitch...
...Lizzie, Inga Swenson plays what the contradictory script calls for, a kind of shrinking oak. Rainmaker Robert Horton lacks the magical potency to make an audience believe in belief, and Agnes De Mille's dances are tired shoeings from her too-familiar rodeography. Only the wistfully melodic score by Broadway newcomers Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones has what the show is parched for-heart...