Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play would have been the fourth in O'Neill's aborted nine-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory...
...Such a tale is, of course, depressing. But Author Merrill Joan Gerber makes it even more so by coating it with sentimentality. A short-story writer who has published in Redbook and Mademoiselle, she seems glued to the traditional women's magazine faith-the world is blackest just before a rose-tinted dawn. After Abram's death, the problem sister marries her beatnik lover. The other sister decides that she will bear a son with her father's name-"It was all I could do in this world-all I could hope to do." Almost any death...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Steve McQueen, James Garner, James Coburn and Richard Attenborough star in The Great Escape (1963), a thrilling tale of Allied war prisoners trying to break out of a Nazi prison camp. Movies are getting longer than ever (2 hours 50 minutes for this one), so constant viewer will have to wait for CBS Friday Night Movies, 9-11 p.m., for the conclusion...
...part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare to a haven outside Greece. But until they got to Ramparts, they were unable to convince anyone of the truth of their tale...
Redeeming Facts. Unfortunately, Elliot Arnold, a sometime screen writer (Flight from Ashiya, Broken Arrow), comes close to tarnishing a gallant tale by treating it with shabby slickness. He lays out staccato scenes in simplistic scenarist terms and somehow manages to include every cliche possible-plus a few that are highly improbable...