Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which preceded it, like much of the Stephen Charnas-Andre Gregory book, seemed diffuse and veering almost instinctively toward the trite. Their happiest moment was a parody of Little Red Riding Hood which held its own pretty well with Jack Webb's and the score of other lampoons. Their version of an opera rehearsal was good fun too, although the staging sometimes let affected confusion substitute for hilarity...
...used to be a river pirate and now runs the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen), one of South Viet Nam's exotic alliances of political and religious sects, with its own private army of 8,000 uniformed men. The general often seems like an inclusive version of Murder Inc. and the police force, for his Binh Xuyen controls Saigon's prostitutes and its cops, its narcotics and its narcotics squad, its highest paid assassins and its homicide bureau...
...about a small-town lady crackpot; Ruth Draper's monologue about a Scottish immigrant at Ellis Island; Pianist-Comedian Victor Borge's skillfully timed spoofing of Mozart and Manhattan traffic ("Every empty taxi you see has somebody in it"); and Songstress Lena Home's high-tension version of The Lady Is a Tramp. Best of all: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's Barbara Bel Geddes and Bus Stop's Kim Stanley in a brace of crackling scenes (specially "blended" for the occasion) from their respective plays...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p m., NBC). The Browning Version, with Herbert Marshall, Judith Evelyn...
Before the window is a simple oak altar topped by two vases of fresh flowers and a spotlighted Bible (King James version, open to the 23rd Psalm). The room's only other furniture: an American flag, two electric candelabra, a pair of kneeling benches and ten armchairs. For four days last week, the public got its first and last look at the room; henceforth, it will be open to Senators and Representatives only. A screen covering the entrance will ensure privacy, but an attendant will be allowed to call meditating legislators to the telephone or to the floor when...