Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are not. Earle Fdgriton's Morell loses every element of the minister's character which should make him attractive. Shaw's version is genuinely hearty and morally scrubbed, perhaps more a man of instinct than thought, but his are good, deep instincts. Instead, Fdgerton is posing and sniveling. In a role which demands naturalness above all, he is always artificial, or worse, sanctimonious and prim...
...Radcliffe Dance Group, in cooperation with the Harvard Dramatic Club, will present a dance-drama version of Thurber's fantasy "The Thirteen Clocks," on the afternoons of March 30 and 31, and April...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Burlesque, a musical version of the Broadway hit play, with Dan Dailey Marilyn Maxwell, Joan Blondell, Jack Oakie and James Gleason...
...final impact. Above all, it comes too late. A generation of men who know KP chores, the squeeze of discipline and the harmless obscenity of barracks lingo are not apt to be impressed by these documentary notes. To their wives, the book will seem like a more literary version of some of the hurt letters their men wrote during the first weeks of basic...
...cast from the standard set by the three principles. Robert Beaty understands his part as a kindly, ineffectual old man but plays him as something of a crochet and far too sharp a thinker. Colgate Salsbury lacks the proper touch of fatuous pomposity and caricature in his version of a bumptuous farm manager. But neither man is at all bad in his role. Lee Jeffries and Patricia Leathem are good at saying their lines but have done little to improve on them in a way that might capture attention. The general fault of these highly competent actors is a tendency...