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Symbolic characters can be used in a drama as well as in a novel, but on the stage they must be more than mere symbols. In "Billy Budd," Claggart and Billy never assume human complexity, and this is the greatest weakness of the play. The performance of Torin Thatcher as Claggart is an attempt to hint at a human character where, in reality, there is none. Charles Nolte is more successful as Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written...
Under the searching eye of the television camera, and compressed into an hour's playing time, the TV Othello became a taut, single-minded study of the crack-up of the tormented Moor (played by Britain's Torin Thatcher) under the evil persistence of lago (Alfred Ryder). Producer Fred Coe managed to fill, but not clutter, the TV screen with a swirl of movement, created a sense of space by letting his cameras probe down colonnaded halls and into drapery-hung apartments...
...patch over one eye, and her heart, to her undoing, on her sleeve. Cruel, capricious Philip II was Ana's devoted friend until she became his Secretary of State's enraptured mistress; thereafter the King, out of pique and jealousy, hounded the lovers implacably. The Secretary (Torin Thatcher) escaped at last to Aragon; Ana was kept a prisoner for life in her walled-up palace in Madrid...
...Second Thought...In Pueblo, Colo., when Banker Raymond C. C. Thatcher complained that he had been overcharged $375 in inheritance taxes, officials reviewed the case, discovered that it had been wrongly classified, upped Thatcher's taxes another...
Anne Parsons '49, Constance Crocker '49, and Anne Thatcher '49, took a ten day leave from their studies at the University of Geneva and the Institute of International Studies last your to celebrate Christmas in Czechoslovakia and France...