Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When directors undertake to dust off Shakespeare plots, the noise of the vacuum cleaner all too often drowns out the play, but Director Tyrone Guthrie, a veteran of the Old Vic, never allows that to happen. The story of All's Well, lifted from Boccaccio, is about Helena, a poor physician's daughter married by royal command to a snobbish young count. The groom runs off to the wars before the wedding day has even reached the cocktail hour. The rest of the play tells how Helena plots her way into her husband's bedchamber and eventually...
Alec Guinness, in a beard-and-wheel-chair getup reminiscent of Monty Woolley in The Man Who Came to Dinner, is delightful as the King. But the real star is the Old Vic's Irene Worth, a Nebraska girl who went to England a decade ago and came back (she was last seen with Guinness in Manhattan in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party) sounding more English than Edith Sitwell. She plays Helena as if she meant it with all her heart; her love for a fool is convincing, her distress in a farcical predicament truly moving...
...flew over a special broadcaster. The night before the finals, Kurt drank a victory toast (champagne) to himself and asked cheerfully: "What have I got to lose?" The celebration ended on Wimbledon's center court next day, when the youthful Nielsen faced the U.S.'s second-seeded Vic Seixas, a robust 29-year-old playing the best tennis of his nomadic life (TIME, March...
Seixas promptly broke Nielsen's big serve, then took full command. Displaying a champion's full repertory of shots-hard-hit passing drives, volleys and smashes-Vic swept on, 9-7, 6-3, 6-4, to win his first major title (and the sixth Wimbledon taken by an American since the postwar renewal in 1946). The wife of a Danish embassy official handed Kurt Nielsen a bunch of red and white carnations (Danish colors). Kurt pulled one out and handed it to Vic Seixas. The U.S.'s new Wimbledon champion made Denmark's unseeded finalist...
...Wimbledon, Australian tennis suffered an unexpected bump in the quarterfinals when Ken Rosewall was upset by Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, and Lewis Hoad was beaten by Philadelphia's Vic Seixas...