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...Dolly Varden...
Died. Evelyn Varden, 65, character actress whose career began in childhood, ended in January when she left the company of the London hit comedy Roar Like A Dove; first Mrs. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (other stage credits: Russet Mantle, Candle in the Wind), cinemactress (The Bad Seed, Cheaper By The Dozen), radio serialist, familiar player on live dramatic TV; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial, but it was also sunlit with innocence and warmly acted by Judith Anderson. Evelyn Varden. Deirdre Owens and. particularly, by Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shivaun) McKenna...
...young man could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...
...hardly be funnier-but too many are dipped in common brass. The tunes, all but one called Imagine, are routine musicomedy, and the lyrics are of the sort that rhyme "baritone" with "aware o'tone." Even so, as crackpots go, Louis Calhern is a Ming vase, and Evelyn Varden provides at least one fine moment. At the Mr. Universe contest, while Steve Reeves is straining to lift the crucial bar bell, she glares at Purdom and hisses: "Don't just sit there! Hold the good thought...